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Anthological notes and narrative on the causes and effects of war, continued:

“ As time went on, various military leaders tinkered with this basic formula for military success in order to make it more flexible. The Romans were best at it. In over two centuries of almost constant war in which they first subjugated all the other city states of Italy and then conquered the other great power of the time, Carthage, they evolved a far more sophisticated version of the phalanx. The unwieldy ...

How small is small? How big is big? How long is the longest Planck? All qualities (qualia, if you must) are relative. Nothing is big, absolutely. Nothing is small, absolutely. Nothing is red, absolutely. Some things are bigger than others. Redder than others. Smaller than others.

The fact is, there is no such a thing as the biggest or reddest or shortest or longest or smallest thing. At one stage, atoms were supposed to be the smallest thing. Then electrons. Then protons. Now quarks ...

Imagine you are making a cup of tea, and some boiling water drips onto your hand. You feel pain in the part touched by the boiling water. You are aware of your hand, and you are aware of the part of your hand that hurts.

In one sense, part of your hand is talking to you (conveying a message of pain) and you know how that part is feeling (sore). In other words, you and a whole bunch of your cells are having a conversation. But you don’t know anything at the level of, or about each, ...

Notes On Warfare - Causes & Effects, by K. B. Robertson

“Jericho, perhaps European civilization’s first walled city, with moat and a tower (citadel). Fortified against raids by inhabitants of the arid zone (grassland steppes of untillable soil) beyond Jericho’s agricultural base. The stored grains of farmers were probably not the raider’s goal, whereas, the farmer’s livestock - and people for slaves - probably was the incentive of the aggressors.”
- Paraphrased from John ...

Excerpts from Butterfly, Owl & Eagle

Chapter 15


Fleet Operations, Pt. II, continued:
0630 hours, 3 June 1959:
Crewmen with filled, steaming breakfast trays are moving through the steam line commissary service and beginning to sit near and around Ericson’s improvised, pre-reveille study hall and counseling chambers. He’s no longer being even mildly hazed - harassed as a newcome. Being on the boat crew has helped his initiation. Coxswains must ...