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Martin van Creveld
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Martin van Creveld's personal blog at martin-van-creveld.com covers politics and history. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The View from Olympus: A 4GW Impeachment? By William S Lind”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links posts by historian and military theorist Martin van Creveld on topics such as the Ottoman ban on the printing press, Turkey's religion and state, and the economics of ageing populations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
As I Please
Most-linked posts?
- /monsters-ii/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-14
- The View from Olympus: A 4GW Impeachment? By William S Lind2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-23
What Hacker News says?
"Infrastructure spending is not the best way of propping up the economy." We were not talking about "propping up the economy", we were talking about sustaining it. "You get more for your buck by giving the money to the people who will immediately spend it." This is true. But by "importing all of India we don't make Calcutta rich, we make Germany a Calcutta" as somebody said. "Germany doesn't need to increase the mil…
Comment linking /monsters-ii/
on “The Old Are Eating the Young”Submitted Fighting Nonsense with Nonsense as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTurkey is a Muslim country. The strict separation of religion and state was introduced by Ataturk and is reversed by Erdogan. While being a Muslim country is not necessary something bad, it seems to go not well along with an industrialized open society: http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/monsters-ii/ I just came back from a short visit to Turkey and some strange, random impressions gave me big doubts.
Comment linking /monsters-ii/
on “Turkey has unveiled a stealth carrier-based unmanned aircraft program”Submitted The View from Olympus: A 4GW Impeachment? By William S Lind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat went wrong? During the middle ages the Arabs developed a brilliant civilization, or so we are told. Next, at some time during the fifteenth century, things began going wrong. The Arabs missed the invention of print (only in 1775 did the Ottomans, who at that time ruled over most Arabs, allow the first printing shop to be established. They missed humanism, the Renaissance, and the Reformation. They missed the Sc…
Comment linking /monsters-ii/
on “Ban of the printing press led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire”Submitted The View from Olympus: A 4GW Impeachment? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
