Comments by "Julian The Apostate" (@juliantheapostate8295) on "Can you calculate war? Are war games pointless? (Praxeology vs the Ossipov-Lanchester equations)" video.

  1. The Prussians invented wargaming. To represent random chance, or 'friction' as they termed it, they rolled dice. Certainly then, the Prussians didn't believe war could be calculated. God may not play dice, but Generals do
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  2. That's how we end up with Skynet and AM
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  3.  @antonjohansson3819  men tend to break when they believe they've been outflanked or if there's no other units supporting them. A rout was set off by accident at the battle of Pharsalus when several units were repositioned by the general. Sometimes it's less that the men are running from the enemy outright, but rather they are trying to avoid an encirclement so they can counter attack later. Better than running out of supplies and being forced to surrender. Fighting the Germans to the bitter end during the battles of 1941 did the Russians no favours whatsoever, unlike in late 1942 when the Germans were at full stretch
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  4. Seems to have been at least partly inspired by War in the East 2 by Slitherine and 2 by 4
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  5. I am still trying to learn it. So incredibly detailed
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  6. A rationalist? Aren't scientists supposed to be empirical?
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  7. Didn't they lose the Winter War and have to give up more territory than the Russians originally demanded?
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  8. In a sense the US is socialist, you're quite right. Look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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