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Author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery and The Laws of Human Nature.
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Discourses on LivyBook Niccolò Machiavelli
This year it was the Discourses. What struck me this time was how many ideas in the Discourses dominate my own way of thinking. I read it some twenty years ago, and it must have unconsciously seeped its way into my belief system. The book is so full of ideas that sparkle to life the more you think about them
Blog post on his yearly December ritual of rereading Machiavelli.
2006-12-28·powerseductionandwar.com ↗
Command in WarBook Martin van Creveld
If you read Martin Creveld's book on command, he explains that the speed of Napoleon's army is comparable to any contemporary army, but with the technology of two-hundred years ago.
Blog post on John Boyd's OODA loop and speed in strategy.
2007-02-24·powerseductionandwar.com ↗
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