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Actually, not only have 'humans been fighting wars for a long time', the entire idea of maneuver warfare predates both Ender's game _and_ it making its way into
by glurgh 14y ago
Actually, not only have 'humans been fighting wars for a long time', the entire idea of maneuver warfare predates both Ender's game _and_ it making its way into US army literature.
And this you can surmise not by digging up some obscure work from a library but simply by reading the wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare#Development_of_Maneuver_Warfare_theories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare#Development_of...
The notion that Ender's game, whatever one might think of its merits, was somehow an early and unrecognized insight into maneuver warfare is ludicrous and silly.
- robertskmiles 14y agoI don't think anyone is claiming that, just that it is a good introduction to the principles.
- glurgh 14y ago"Despite this aggregation of martial thought, the best book on maneuver warfare is in fact a 30 year old science fiction novel. Although incomplete in addressing all aspects of theory, Ender’s Game is one of the best books on maneuver warfare ever written." I think the OA is very much and very ludicrously claiming that.
- icebraining 14y agoBeing a good book - even the best book - is not the same as containing new and/or undiscovered insights.