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#BookoftheDay Started reading Warrick's book. I hope no book like this will be written for Iran also.

According to BBC's Russian language book speaking Russian will help you in former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine. What do you think?

Deputy chief of army warns ADF has become 'detached' from violent nature of war Major General Chris Smith delivered an excoriating address to a major conference last year, declaring "managerial and advertising logic and double speak" had "polluted" the military.

I hear you mate!
"Deputy Chief of Army Major General Chris Smith has taken aim at the "unavoidable creep of managerial speak" within the Australian Defence Force."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I am scanning through New York Times archive and coming across interesting and weird news and comments. One of these about the opening of Turkish Grand Assembly in Ankara. Journalists anxiously labelled it as a Soviet and the whole affair as a revolt

Thanks to Times Higher Education's new geographic region, Central Eurasia, Turkish universities finally made it to the top.
www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer...

Scoop news from New York Times, Dec 1919.
"Crown Enver Pasha King of Kurdistan" 😎

Mum dibine ışık vermez. Çoğu fotoğrafçının az fotoğrafı vardır. Eskiden sadık gölge diyorlarmış fotoğrafçının varlığını sadece bazı fotoğraflarda kendisini gösteren gölgesinden dolayı.

It is pity that Allen and Muratoff's Caucasian Battlefields book covers after 1828

RIP

I am afraid there isn't any new books about Ottoman related Napoleonic wars.

Our inky mushroom population

The list is long.
There is one mistake that puzzles me (p.412). Baer is the author of a book about Dönmes (Jewish converts) and apparently does not know its slang meaning. It doesn't mean "passive homesexual" it means "trans woman".

Thanks. Well this book is very general not providing details wargamers are looking for. My other two books better in details.

Well I would advise Ed Erickson's works and some of mine (the Ottoman Army and the FWW; The Ottoman Defence against the Anzac Landing).

For example no Hamidiye officer ever sent to Russia (p. 373). There were a few Ottoman officers who were graduates of different Russian military schools. But they had attended these schools as Russian subjects and later migrated to the the Ottoman Empire and became Ottoman officers.

Just finished reading Baer's The Ottomans. Overall it is a good book but as a military historian I got surprised by the amount of mistakes and misunderstandings about the Ottoman military. Not to mention other factual errors.

Strangest mosque building ever. Salonika New (Hamidiye) Mosque opened in 1904. Italian architect Poselli. Current and old photos.

No comment 😎

medieval worlds • no. 23 • 2025 A truly sensational find is presented in volume 23 of Medieval Worlds: a newly discovered Christian world chronicle in Arabic, which Adrian C. Pirtea examines in a preliminary case study. We furthermo...

An important discovery. A Christian chronicle covering critical years of early Islam. Fingers crossed.
medievalworlds.net?arp=0x004102d6

Of course a consumer catalog that advertise secret society tokens should sell weapons and all sorts of ammunition

Good to hear this. If the subject within my area of expertise I am at your service

Time to write a new book

What a joke? Back in the 1900s secret society members purchased their emblems from consumer catalogs.

Historic DNA discovery! Turkish Kolorko identified as Hungary’s Furmint

DNA research of a grape presents an interesting Hungarian-Turkish connection
www.winesofa.eu/articles/his...

My view right now

That diagram/flow chart was Gen. McChrystal's macaroni salad. Designed for the general by so-called scholars. I had to used it as a staff officer in 2009. My nightmare ever since

Time to reread Gaddis' Grand Strategy. And one can not escape from the Dardanelles.

A key nuclear weapons treaty is ending. It’s a blow to Russia’s ‘superpower’ myth | CNN Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union, Russia has cut a substantially diminished figure on the international stage.

An important turning point. For the first time since 1972 there would be no binding nuclear weapons treaty between the US and Russia.
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

YouTube video by Medyascope TV 2. Dünya Savaşı sonrası kurulan dünya düzeni yıkılırsa Türkiye’nin rolü ne olur? | Rivayet Muhtelif

Rivayet Muhtelif programında Hilmi Hacaloğlu ile yaptığım söyleşi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmn3...

Newspaper that I came across at an elevator
"Treat women properly....unless they're Right"