Greetings to all here.

Life has a way of interfering with one's efforts, but I am certain that nigh all of humanity relates to that fact.

The Scientific Way of Warefare is complete, and it has been an excellent read. Outlining the parallel of scientific advancements and outlooks in conjunction with the perspectives and theories of war thoughout much of Western history since medieval times, it has chronicled a fair notion of that segment of war, organizational relations, and the possibility of adaptability and predictability associated with combat and technology.

To that end, it has proven enjoyably informative of what I see as Bousquet's unique view. In the same process, it has added considerably to the emerging understanding of general war-considerations such as pattern, underlying causes, individual perspectives, forces of dynamic, surrounding technological advancements, and the influence of given individuals and command/authority heirarchic relations.

So... We will see what artwork and sketches come of this. I have a few ideas; which ones survive to be reliably rendered remains to be seen, but after these few days of study, I am eager for a chance to work on some sketching with equivalent dedication.

Overall, I feel they are topics quite vital to my concept of Julian Robotnik and his inherent opposition to the nature of Mobius around him. For this project's sake, there is much to be learned and gathered of the nature of human warefare, yet alone to the simple fact that the abstractions of history comprise their own sort of potential volatility; after all, Robotnik, in my idea, is not Mobian, and his very presence is case for many kinds of developments, both negative and positive ... And his own choice and direction amid awareness of those is just as complex and insidious as any other conspiring from others around him.

The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene
The Art of Seduction, Robert Greene
Moral Minds: The nature of right and wrong, Marc D. Hauser;
A Brief History of Everything, modern philosopher Ken Wilber;
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Saskia Sassen;
Being and Nothingness, Modern Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre;
The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity, Antoine Bousquet;
[*]Purify and Destroy: The Political Issues of Massacre and Genocide, Jaques Semelin;
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith;
The Five Senses: A philosophy of mingled bodies[/concepts], On data, perception, information flooding and decay of attentiveness, Michel Serres;
The Parallax View, complexity of existential/perceptual framework in arts/sciences, Slavoj Zizek;
Science Fiction and Philosophy: From time travel to superintelligence, Susan Schneider;
On Killing: The psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman;
The Nietzche Reader, collected excerpts from the works of philosopher Neitzche, edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Duncan Large;
The Art of City Making, Charles Landry;
Chomsky on Anarchism, Noam Chomsky;
I am a Strange Loop, cognitive psychology, Douglas Hofstadter;
On Combat: the psychology and physiology of Deadly Combat in war and peace, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, with Loren W. Christensen;
The Future of Life, on world ecology and decline, Edward O. Wilson;
Intelligence Reframed: Multiple intelligences for the 21st Century, Howard Gardner;
Complicity and Conviction: Steps towards an architecture of convention, Willian Hubbard;
Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum;
What is Architecture? An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines, Paul Shepheard;
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson;
Wagner's Hitler: The prophet and his disciple, Joachim Kohler;
The uses of the Past: Profiles of former societies, Herbert J. Muller;
The Politics of Cultural Despair: a study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology; Fritz Stern;
The Encyclopedia of Ignorance; Ronald Duncan and Miranda Weston-Smith;
The Book of War, compilation of Sun-Tzu's Art of Warfare, and John Clauzewitz's On War, Caleb Carr;
The Last Book you will Ever Read: and other lessons from the future, Frank Ogden;
The Essential Zizek: The Plague of Fantasies, modern media and rational blindness through overexposure, Slavoj Zizek;
The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau;
The Sane Society, overconformity and modern industrial society, Erich Fromm;
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana;
Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, David Shoemaker;
Violence and the Sacred, Rene Girard;
War in Human Civilization, Azar Gat;
Culture and Imperialism, Edward W. Said