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Re:Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part III... by ascar on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:24AM (#31859463)
The blog also has an awesome series about different battles in Lord of the Rings and their historical accuracy/plausibility in regards to general warfare, logistics, etc.

I think I found those via HN too.

Re:Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies, Part III... by DylanSp on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:49AM (#31860956)
Those series are also really enjoyable, especially because they're not just about picking on implausible aspects of LotR; those posts are also about introducing a lot of different military concepts (premodern army logistics, analyzing decisionmaking at tactical/operational/strategic layers, various different types of military organization and how they can tie into civilian social structures), using LotR as an example.