What Austin Padgett Says About Military & Strategy

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Key Insights on Military & Strategy

Gunpowder ended steppe military advantage by 1700s, with Russia and China dividing the grasslands after millennia of nomadic dominance - "the time just ran out for nomadic peoples"

The step culture operated on "chaotic anarchy and totalitarianism" duality - tribes scattered independently until great leaders unified them into fragile war bands dependent on continuous raiding
Soviet Union had higher inequality than the West during Cold War; difference between commissar and worker exceeded CEO-to-employee gap in 1960s America
"Political correctness" originated as Soviet term; East Germany is most right-wing region today because they experienced same manipulation tactics earlier
Quality of life for lower economic classes declined from Civil War to WWI, then improved dramatically after the Immigration Act of 1921 cut off immigration
England's strategy of breaking game theory rules through parliamentary systems, capitalism, and naval power created exponential returns that built the modern world
The English Civil War (1640s) established parliamentary dominance over monarchy, creating the longest period of political stability in human history from 1688 to present