Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies)

Hey folks, fireside this week as I get ready for the start of a new semester! For this week, I wanted to talk briefly about the wrinkles that financing navies poses with regards to our worldbuilding primer on pre-modern armies. "what about navies?" has been a frequent question in comments and from patrons. Now a … Continue reading Fireside Friday, August 14, 2026 (On Financing Pre-Modern Navies) →

Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to 'civ-mil' or sometimes CMR) is, simply put, the relationship between the broader civil … Continue reading Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship →