The Peloponnesian War
What was the Peloponnesian War?
The Peloponnesian War (431 BC404 BC) was a devastating military conflict in Ancient Greece fought between Athens and its empire and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. In the first, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica, while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese while attempting to suppress signs of unrest in its empire. This period of the war was con...

Carl von Clausewitz
On War... (and Peace too!)
Prussian general and intellectual-turned-theorist Carl von Clausewitz is the most famous theorist of war.  His classic 600-page work, On War is a look at war from the eye of a commander.  The "art of war" is Clausewitz's overarching theme, as he searches for those principles that explain success and failure on the battlefield, for those traits that define genius or mediocrity, and he sifts through the complexities of warfare so that commanders can succeed where so many others have failed.  Ca...

Ch 22: Attempted Revolution Tonight!
Making choices and moves as perceptions drift.
It's time to quit talking. Our hackers must act. "If there are several opposing views about an issue, all of them can't be right; however, all of them can be very wrong." - Allan Wallace If you have not read the first 21 chapters starting at Complicit Simplicity - the Hackers' End Game, go enjoy those first. A book index with direct-to-chapter links can be found by clicking here.

Guatemala Civil War
A War that should have been called a Civil War
Back in 1960 the government of Guatemala went to war with the insurgents of the country. This is what started the war that was never really talked about. The civil war lasted until the peace accords were signed 1996. Over 200,000 people were slaughtered and till this day they are still finding mass graves of bodies. Most of the people that were killed were not the guerrilla fighters but the indigeous Mayan farmers, peasants, students, and local government people. Not only was there over 200,0...