No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfare Primer

Re:No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfa... by glurgh on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:26AM (#5218807)

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#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.

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Re:No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfa... by robertskmiles on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:44AM (#5218853)

I don't think anyone is claiming that, just that it is a good introduction to the principles.

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Re:No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfa... by glurgh on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:59AM (#5219052)

"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.

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Re:No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfa... by icebraining on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:55AM (#5219200)

Being a good book - even the best book - is not the same as containing new and/or undiscovered insights.

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