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Posts by Dr. Jonathan Abel

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In #Wargaming History with @historianabel.bsky.social playing a new game for the class Warlords: China in Disarray

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In #Wargaming History with @historianabel.bsky.social playing @sebastianbae.bsky.social favorite Fredrick.

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History through #Wargaming with @historianabel.bsky.social at CGSC Students playing Shakos Games Napoleon 1806 & 1807! Learning how to operate the Corps and Lee the links to learning lessons during the course.

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History through #Wargaming with @historianabel.bsky.social at CGSC students playing Fellowship of Simulation’s Verdun: Steel Inferno! For all your Barrage needs.

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Our joint #wargaming course with the CGSC Dept of Military History @historianabel.bsky.social begins today with the Frank Chadwick classic Battle for Moscow

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The scene where they drop behind the Atreides lines and kill the standard infantry easily is meant to demonstrate how good they are. Idaho is the best Atreides fighter (excepting Worm Leto and maybe peak weirding Paul).

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Deleted previous post for typo

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3/ Marshal Richelieu made this punishment general. It produced an effect that characterized the spirit of the French soldier." What this tells us is that French soldiers cared more about participating in the attack on the fortress than they did getting drunk on cheap Spanish wine. #skystorians

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2/ it was quite difficult to prevent soldiers from getting drunk on duty days. An idea came to several colonels, in whose number I was, to deprive all of those who had gotten drunk in the trench of mounting the next one...

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1/ We have no extant letters written by pre-1789 enlisted French soldiers, so it's very difficult to ascertain their motivations or thoughts. We can only do so obliquely through interesting vignettes like this one from Richelieu on Menorca: "In a country where wine was sold at the lowest price...

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Episode 75 - Reassessing Bernadotte with Dr. Mike Bonura

This was fun open.spotify.com/episode/5fzQ...

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🚨New episode🚨- Napoleon's strategies have arrived on the battlefields of Europe! Special guest Jonathan Abel @HistorianAbel discusses how Napoleon approached his campaigns and how Napoleon's system has influenced future generations of military planners.

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In the flesh and it's fantastic. Great resource from @historianabel.bsky.social with beautiful set of figures

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Luckily Gates had the best American general with him: Arnold

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I think that’s ex post facto reasoning. Congress would’ve been delighted if he’d won the battles he fought, especially the major ones like Brooklyn Heights

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I’d rank Louis and Carlos as the two most important decision-makers of course, but all they had to do was say yes. Galvéz was on the ground. And we of course know that Washington never won a battle he commanded.

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The father of American independence and the individual who probably did the most to secure it.

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I will post nothing about Waterloo today, because I don’t celebrate defeats #skystorians

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Teaching Race to Rabaul this morning to @historianabel.bsky.social #Wargaming History class. RTR is a logistics focused game from @volko.bsky.social and @phalanxgames.bsky.social coming soon. Our students Army University are getting first crack at this #wargaming prototype!!!

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Thanks!

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What is/are the best books on Gálvez’s campaigns in the AWI? #skystorians @herreramilhist.bsky.social @kabinettskriege.bsky.social

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Today with @historianabel.bsky.social at CGSC we played @phalanxgames.bsky.social Race to the Rhine. Operational WW2 with a heavy focus on logistics!

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Princeton University Press sale 🤝my money

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Today with @historianabel.bsky.social at CGSC we played @volko.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social Nevsky. Operational Medieval warfare with a heavy focus on logistics!

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Today with @historianabel.bsky.social Army University playing @sebastianbae.bsky.social favorite Friedrich #wargaming #simulations #army an accessible #wargame that explores the Seven Years War.

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Practicing the Operational Arts with Napoleon 1807 from Shakos for History through #wargaming with @historianabel.bsky.social Army University.

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Using a WW1 #Wargaming Drive on Paris with @historianabel.bsky.social Supply rules and reconstitution does a good job of representing operations. Army University elective on using wargames to explore decision making in history.

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Battle for Moscow!! Frank Chadwick’s excellent introduction to #wargames used here at Army University with @armeedeterre.bsky.social @abrgll.bsky.social present for #Wargaming through History elective with @historianabel.bsky.social

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Battle for Moscow!! Frank Chadwick’s excellent introduction to #wargaming with @historianabel.bsky.social for History through #Wargames elective

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