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June Book Blog: A Short Wargame About the Troubles, with Objectives Based Upon Richard English's Does Terrorism Work

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Please note: this post's a bit incoherent. It's been rushed out around the schedule of writing the game, which has taken way too long. DTW is a good history. It starts with a rigorous methodological discussion, starting from the merits of history as a discipline and building out to define the terms of its analysis: examining terrorism's effects along a schema of strategic and tactical successes which looks like this: '1. Strategic victory, with the achievement of a central, primary goal or goals 2. Partial strategic victory, in which:     (a) One partially achieve ones' central, primary goal(s)     (b) One achieved or partially achieved one's secondary ... strategic goal(s)     (c) One determined the agenda, thereby preventing one's opponent from securing victory 3. Tactical success, in terms of:   (a) Operational successes      (b) The securing of interim concessions.     (c) The acquisition of publicity     (d) The ...