Bret Devereaux
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Bret Devereaux is an ancient and military historian who teaches as a teaching assistant professor at North Carolina State University.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Position: Teaching assistant professor, North Carolina State University (as of October 2026) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: PhD ancient history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA classical civilizations, Florida State University (opens wiqqi.app)
- Research: Roman economy and Roman military (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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x.com: @BretDevereaux (opens x.com)
“This week on the blog! We're finishing our Hearts of Iron IV series, focused on strategic ends and the place of modding in the game. In the end, I think there is a bitter irony that Paradox's least historically…”
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Blog: A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (opens acoup.blog)
“Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVb: Iron Ends”
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x.com: @BretDevereaux (opens x.com)
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32 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The outcome of World War II and the Cold War refuted the beliefs that centralized state direction is efficient, that autarky is viable, that domination beats trade, and that a highly militarized economy can durably sustain national power. (opens korrents.com)
“the rather resounding verdict of the war (and the subsequent Cold War period) was that these assumptions - that centralized state direction was efficient, that autarky was a viable economic strategy, that it was better…”
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The aggressor powers' aims in World War II were fundamentally economic: it was a war for resources. (opens korrents.com)
“the strategic ends of the aggressor nations were fundamentally rooted in economic objectives. To put it in the classic formulation, World War II was a war for resources.”
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Axis atrocities were not collateral damage but deliberate military policy bound up with Axis strategy (opens korrents.com)
“The atrocities could not be seperated from Axis strategy: they were the ways, means and ends, by, with and for which the Axis fought.”
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The outcome of World War II and the Cold War refuted the beliefs that centralized state direction is efficient, that autarky is viable, that domination beats trade, and that a highly militarized economy can durably sustain national power. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (opens rcmnd.app)
“This week’s book recommendation was a pretty easy choice: Kori Schake, The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (2025).”
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The Iliad of Homer (opens rcmnd.app)
“First, for my personal favorite translation, I would suggest the Richmond Lattimore translation, The Iliad of Homer (1951) and The Odyssey of Homer (1965).”
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Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (opens rcmnd.app)
“this week I am going to go with a book I find myself recommending quite frequently, J.E. Lendon’s Soldier’s and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (2006).”
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The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (opens rcmnd.app)