About the "Big Book of Warfare"

About the
“Big Book of Warfare”
by Ryan Crierie

The Big Book of Warfare's genesis was a few years ago, when I realized the following:

Most generalist military “how-to” guides, such as James F. Dunnigan's book How to Make War leave a lot to be desired. While they are good primers for someone who is a total neophyte in military matters; but for someone who knows a bit more than the average person, they're next to useless; restating the obvious.
I have been accumulating military information and tidbits for the last couple of years; and I realized that if I could collate them all, and organize them into a easy-to-read format, such a thing would be very useful as a reference source.

Originally, the plan was to publish the Big Book of Warfare in a spiral-bound format at Lulu.com, for about $20 bucks; but since then, I've decided to maintain it as an online reference work, in the same vein as Project Rho's Atomic Rocket website; with an option of purchasing a $15~ spiral bound hardcover copy for off-line reference; with the small profits going towards the operating costs of Alternate Wars.

FOOTNOTE: Ironically, the name “Big Book of Warfare” was suggested as a joke on Star Destroyer Net by the user Starglider while this reference work was still in private development, and Starglider didn't know that I already had picked BBOW as an interim name:

Chris OFarrell wrote:
Of course, they [Demons from Hell] might rob a bookstore or four and walk away with every Jane's publication in the last decade for the same effect.

Starglider wrote:
I doubt that would be terribly useful without a lot of cultural and technological context the demons don't have. “The Big Book of Warfare (ages 8 to 12)” * would probably be more useful.

* I suspect Shep likes to donate copies of this to grade school libraries.