Self-Sufficiency Must Match Inconsistency The natural course of progress has been to specialize. One person does one thing really well and does it for all the others who have their own specializations. The difficulty is this makes the system fragile. Failure of one...
Putting Down Bullies As standards are raised, certain tactics and innovations irrevocably keep that standard. One such innovation was the revolver. Being able to sequentially fire bullets simply and reliably forever changed combat. Most importantly it allowed for a...
Goliath Vs The Grandma In the days before the revolver, size and training was everything. A grandma taking on Goliath would never prevail. Even with the advent of gunpowder, firearms were too unwieldy for many to use. But with a revolver, all grandma needs is one good...
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