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Within its corridors you will find insight into the books I have written, the books I am writing and the books I am thinking about writing. It is also a place where I can offer insights into my favorite authors and – in the case of my game Conqueror: Fields of Victory – I can explain my rules and offer new variants. Scroll down or check the sidebar for my latest posts. Nonfiction: Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020 Long Live Death: The Keys to Victory in the Spanish Civil War Fiction: Three Weeks with…
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There is a widespread belief that the quality of one’s planning improves in direct proportion to its detail. That is, the more factors and variables that are taken into the account, the more robust (and successful) the final product will be. In fact, the opposite is often the case in practice. Plans have to function in a very hostile environment, and it is simply not possible to take every single factor into account when making a plan. To give a rather extreme example, there have been times when the volcanoes in Iceland erupt and create ash clouds that completely disrupt…
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