2 ms·

Guns aren't even the foundation to warfare. Food is, as is the efficient movement of food, allocation of food. If society collapses, the most powerful fighters

Guns aren't even the foundation to warfare. Food is, as is the efficient movement of food, allocation of food. If society collapses, the most powerful fighters will be the dude who remembers how to raise donkeys and horses, so that food can move around and organize an army. There's a reason why Genghis Khan first attacked China of all places. The great Khan needed to recruit bureaucrats to organize the logistics of his army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yel%C3%BC_Chucai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yel%C3%BC_Chucai It doesn't take very long to realize that standing armies themselves require a society with laws, rules, logistics, organization. Pretty much every ancient warlord understood this. A good army / war requires a good society: food, education, laws. If you can't provide that, then you can't march an army for more than a couple dozen miles.

owyn 4y ago
There's a good series of blog posts about this. [1] In particular I took away the idea that a bigger army needed more wagons (and donkeys, horses, cooks etc) and was NOT necessarily always more effective. There is a natural limit to the size of an army based on the logistical capabilities of the time. This is one of the reasons why modern warfare gets really large scale and awful. Lots of good details about foraging. Having played a lot of D&D over the years I always tended to ignore the logistics beyond bringing a 10 foot pole and a 50 foot rope into the dungeon. [1] https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-i-the-problem/ https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...