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u/garcia_reid · 3 pointsr/Nodumbquestions

Matt's comment about the White House, (paraphrasing) "people want the same end result but just have different ideas about how to get there" made me think of this book I just listened to.

It's not the easiest read in the world, but I really enjoyed it and learned a lot.

And of course, it fits very well with the NDQ attitude.

It's by Jonathan Haidt.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307455777/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_NbC0DbWTAKPA9

Check it out and enjoy! And most importantly, share it with people who need to hear it.

u/sorryamhigh · 1 pointr/Nodumbquestions

Dang it, late to the party again :(

On regards to frat houses branding, I've been reading Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion and it totally makes sense that people would do that and I totally get why the conversation went from religion to this.

There are at least two major factors to religions: faith & community. The book explains that they usually go hand in hand because the rituals and experiences shared by faith are incredibly powerful at strengthening the community bonds. Frat houses, I imagine, work in similar way, which is why they have such weird seeming rituals that actually makes a lot of sense because it boosts the group-thinking.

u/MuadDib303 · 1 pointr/Nodumbquestions

There’s a gem of a book I read earlier this year called “Rest” by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541617169/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_7BoqDbP91SNWR

The book is a great humanities and science read as it details brain science findings and gives many historic examples from artists, creatives, scientists and mathematicians. The Dali holding the spoon example is inside along with a ton more! Maybe a good book club suggestion?

u/MrPennywhistle · 3 pointsr/Nodumbquestions

Of course, go for it. It was really fun to listen to it in audio form.

u/mennolife · 1 pointr/Nodumbquestions

Loved the episode, you guys work really well together. Just thought I'd mention a great book I read in regards to war and having to kill each other, is called On Killing by Dave Grossman (https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316330116) it goes into allot of the psychology, in how it relates to different soldiers in their respective roles (ground troops, pilots, sailors) would strongly recommend it!

u/dimwell · 1 pointr/Nodumbquestions

Recommended reading for follow-up on the Capt'n Crunch thread: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802122280

u/frankie2fngrs · 1 pointr/Nodumbquestions

Destin and Matt should read On Killing

This book was basically required reading in my platoon (1/4 Wpns, Errrah) back in the day.

u/smallknowings · 1 pointr/Nodumbquestions

Based off of your discussion of the Logan movie you might find this book interesting. Sad that you cannot find it on Audible.

https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Paul-Movies-Apostles-Dialogue/dp/0664254829

u/DonSide · 2 pointsr/Nodumbquestions

Just this week I heard a podcast on some of the background of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and of the author (Julia Ward Howe) in an interview with the author of a new book called "A Fiery Gospel". He says that this seemingly Christian hymn uses Biblical imagery to conflate the righteousness of God and those he uses to do his will with the American military (and more specifically in her time, the Union Army). Even the "of the Republic" in the title implies that.

He also claims that her Unitarian beliefs would have led her to rejected every aspect of the Apostles Creed making her quite un-Christian.

https://www.amazon.com/Fiery-Gospel-Republic-Righteous-Religion/dp/150173641

https://tomwoods.com/ep-1405-the-battle-hymn-of-the-republic-and-american-righteousness/

u/keviniga · 1 pointr/Nodumbquestions

On the current state of life in North Korea, here's a summary of the picture as far as we know from defectors and a few other sources: https://smile.amazon.com/North-Korea-Confidential-Dissenters-Defectors/dp/0804844585/

One thing I was surprised about: since the 1990s famine, the government is no longer the main source of food/income for many citizens. There is an underground economy of contraband that many North Koreans are involved in, and survives because the bribe from the smuggler is more reliable than the salary from the government. Many people skip work to do this other economy, and bribe their bosses to claim that they showed up. Or bribe whoever is taking their boss's place while their boss skips work, too. South Korean CDs and MP3 files are quite common, and so North Koreans are not as cut off from the world as you might think.

u/Scopedog1 · 13 pointsr/Nodumbquestions

Down to 11 minutes left in the podcast, but I think I have some insight for you guys about the whole "We need thinkers as soldiers instead of mindless drones" theme.

One of the big takeaways that the Americans took from fighting the Germans in World War 2 was the German concept of Aufragstaktik or Mission Tactics (Being literal here with my translation. Got a TL;DR at the end, but I figure u/feefuh would appreciate the deep military history dive:

After Napoleon crushed the Prussians at the Battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, the Prussian military stepped back and looked at why they lost. They saw that Napoleon gave his Marshals more freedom than the Prussian army did, which made their ability to respond to events on the battlefield far greater because of the time it took for decisions to be made up the chain of command as well as the thickness of the fog of war. In response, the Prussians made it a national policy to create a corps of staff officers who would teach officers about the art of war, draft war plans, and play out war games to test their theories. Officers who stood out for their aptitude and wits in their units were invited to be students at their Kriegsakadamie, or War Academy.

Officers were trained in all branches of the army—infantry, cavalry, and artillery at the time—with the express purpose of allowing them to share and spread ideas so all officers had a broad understanding of their forces’ capabilities as well as to keep officers from falling into the trap of groupthink. This showed itself in the German Wars of Unification and the Franco-Prussian War where the German curbstomped their foes through quick thinking and operational movement that was just beyond what their opponents could do.
The famous Schiefflin Plan that the Germans used in the opening rounds of World War 1 were the brainchild of staff officers in the General Staff, and while the Western Front was limited in its strategic and operational movement, the Eastern Front demonstrated this again where the Germans destroyed the Imperial Russian Army at Tannenberg, the Masurian Lakes (Twice!) and the blunting of the Russian Kerensky Offensive that knocked the Russians out the war and kickstarted the Bolshevik Revolution. This led the General Staff—especially Hindenberg and Ludendorff—to essentially usurp the German government and run the nation as a dictatorship to win at all costs. The Treaty of Versailles dissolved the German General Staff and banned their recreation.

Fast forward to World War 2, and the General Staff was not only revived, but the idea of Aufragstaktik had been pushed down to Non-Commissioned Officers (Corporals, Sergeants, etc.), so the entire German Army was built to fight the battle that was in front of them as they saw fit. It was totally common to have an artillery battalion commanded by an infantry officer and a company of infantry commanded by an armour officer because it was expected for all officers to command all men in all situations and fight with the tools they had on hand.

This allowed the Germans to fight against opponents who had massive advantages in men and materiel and win, because the Germans saw that information on-site was a huge factor in battle. The Blitzkrieg operations in Poland, France, and 1941-42 in the Soviet Union were examples of the Germans getting inside the information cycle of their opponents because their battalion, company, and even platoon commanders were given the freedom to improvise on the spot to meet the more generalized objectives they were given. For example, in France, the Germans famously raced through the Ardennes Forest and bypassed the French formations faster than the news of the initial breakthrough could travel up the chain of command. Even later in the war after D-Day, the Western Allies had trouble dealing with German units who would defer to the person on the spot and coordinate what should have been a rout into an organized rearguard action.

The downside to this in terms of the Germans was the latitude given to local commanders at times meant that war crimes were considered acceptable if it meant the objective couldn’t be met any other way. Got a hospital that a platoon of infantry is moving around to engage your infantry? Call in an artillery strike and demolish it. Your advance to take a vital bridgehead is held back by the company of soldiers you just encircled and captured? Machine gun them down. Not that it was a consequence of Aufragstaktik per se, but it can be war by any means necessary at the operational and tactical level without a moral compass.

With the Cold War looming, NATO was facing the Warsaw Pact that would outnumber them numerically and in terms of tanks, possibly qualitatively, and any edge on the ground would be welcome. The key weakness of the Soviets was they had a quite top-down command structure that, while they did allow officers some latitude at the platoon and company level, the operational (battalion/brigade/corps) level on upward was very much hierarchal. Using the pattern of training especially NCOs and junior officers in Aufragstaktik, NATO forces hoped that this would allow them the breathing space needed in West Germany to blunt any Warsaw Pact assault and allow reinforcements from the US to arrive.

A good book on this is "The German Way of War" by Robert Citino. He wrote a 4-part (I think) series on the German Army in World War 2 that looked at how they fought operationally, and this book expanded his thesis to the start of the General Staff. Very academic and military history-centric, but I enjoyed it a lot.

Essentially in Ender's Game you have in Ender Wiggins the archetype of Aufragstaktik-style command, and in the battle against the Buggers, he is able to make the decision on the ground necessary to win the battle and get inside the decision-making loop of the hive mind by doing something they would never expect.

TL;DR: The Germans made it a matter of military policy to give their leaders in the thick of the battle the freedom to make decisions based on what they were dealing with through deliberately open-ended orders. This made them immensely more difficult to fight than a more hierarchical military because the playbook was mostly thrown out. The US and by extension NATO armies adopted this during the Cold War as a deliberate strategy to fight the Soviets. Considering the time that Ender's Game was written, Ender being NATO and the Buggers being the Soviets/Chinese would be an apt comparison to look at militarily.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics
Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/German-Way-War-Thirty-Studies/dp/0700616241