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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Goober5000 on September 13, 2010, 08:58:18 pm

Title: The Fate of Empires
Post by: Goober5000 on September 13, 2010, 08:58:18 pm

A very interesting essay written by Sir John Glubb in 1976.
http://www.arlev.co.uk/glubb/index.htm

It's the equivalent of a 28-page printed leaflet.  Long, but very interesting, and many parts of it looks like they could have been written today.

Title: Re: The Fate of Empires
Post by: Liberator on September 13, 2010, 10:13:21 pm

Wow.

Topical in the extreme.  This part:
(http://www.arlev.co.uk/glubb/28.jpg)
Is particularly useful, and sadly most, if not all, Western Nations are in the various stages of decadence.