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No irony. The supply-side history that turned out to be gripping.

Nishant Kumar
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Military history, from grand strategy down to the deeply boring logistics that actually decided everything. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
No irony. The supply-side history that turned out to be gripping.
Book Desk: Supplying War by Martin van Creveld, and it really is gripping — mostly because it keeps demonstrating that famous campaigns failed for reasons nobody put in the histories.