🧵On The Psychology of Military Incompetence is a classic of military leadership. Written in 76 by a professor of psychology, it tries to answer the question, what is the psychological cause of military failure? The first point is that military incompetence cannot be solely attributed to lack of intelligence. The book first examines this hypothesis and rejects it.
It then examines some examples of military failures, case by case.

🧵I recently finished reading @JohnLechner1 's Death is Our Business, about Wagner group.
This was a highly informative read, essential to understand the PMC scenario and how it compares to other models.
Here is a thread of highlights: To me, the most interesting parts of the book were the details of how Wagner operated.
Wagner utilized a complex system of holding companies and offshore accounts.
"Who you know, however, is mor important than how many front companies you have."

A 🧵on Douglas Porch's 'The French Foreign Legion - a complete history'
"The Legion expresses some essential need of the human spirit, the belief that one can break with life and begin again, that salvation is to be found in the quest for danger and suffering." "Legionnaires possessed an almost schizophrenic personality - aggressive yet sentimental, intemperate yet generous and sociable, men deeply wounded by life, in constant need of comfort and companionship, ...[who] ignore fear and know how to die, because they scorn life."

🧵The story of Executive Outcomes, as narrated by its founder, Eeben Barlow in his book “Executive Outcomes, against all odds”, is not only of historical interest, but is essential to anyone who wants to understand how the world works today.
It is an inspiring story of men who saw it as their duty to go into what can be most often only described as hell on earth, to do what they saw as the right thing to do – repeatedly, at great personal cost.

The Ring of the Nibelung - A Preface to Nietzsche 🧵
In the preface to Der Fall Wagner, Nietzsche says: "Wagner sums up modernity. There is no way out, one must first become a Wagnerian."
Yet most self-proclaimed Nietzscheans have no exposure to Wagner, so here it is: The Ring is Wagner's main work, so I'll concentrate on it. The full Libretto is available as dual-language, with many notes and commentary. Roger Scruton's book is also good, but better yet is Paul Heise's Wagnerheim: wagnerheim.com

How to learn Ancient Greek to read Homer: 🧵 It is possible to read Homer's works in the original Ancient Greek in just a few weeks of study. Many waste time looking for the perfect method and book.
I wrote a longer post on learning AG in general, but here is a quick summary for those looking to read primarily Homer: