To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
Even though I bought the 1859 edition of On the Origin of the Species, I started reading “Entangled Life” instead, thanks to a dramacel recommendation, @rDramaHistorian I'm on chapter 3 and the book is great.
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I wrapped up American Civil War: An English View by Field Marshall Viscount Wolesley
This guy was stationed in Canada during the American Civil War, felt like he was only getting the Northern perspective, and took leave and smuggled himself South
This book is a collection of notes from his experience there and some essays he wrote on the war 20 years later in a military magazine.
I'm not a Civil War turbo neurodivergent so some of the battles and names went over my head but it's clear that Wolesley knew what he was talking about in his military analysis. He
over and over again at both sides' lack of ability to deliver a decisive punishing blow when they had the upper hand and imo deals fairly with both 
even though he disagreed strongly with slavery.
He takes a special interest in amphibious assaults as well (since Bongland is an island).
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The idea that you could win a war in two days like Napoleon persisted far too long.
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Laughable.
Nowadays you can win it in....
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Two weeks.
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