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"text": "I was in the same position when I was young as you are now. What I would tell my younger self is to stop poisoning your mind by starting with reading tactics and stategies and instead start with the real basics: You start with Logic & Math. \n\nSounds dumb I know but the first things you should get a grip on are probability theory and game theory including heuristic. If you understand the processes and concepts behind it you learn how to get a grip on uncertaintly, stategy and decision making with insufficent information. Something I would call the grand fondation.\n\nThe next thing is to estabish a critical mindset, questioning everything. Everything. Whenever somone presents you a concept you should strife to take it apart until you understand which core assumtions its based on, what its limits are and what cababilites it has. Personally I think Math is perfect for that again as by focusing on practical apprications it additionally deepens your understanding of things and happenings in the world.\n\nThen you start playing games which circle around ranged combat. As different as possible: Go play Airsoft, play strategy games, play shooters. There you push all the thing aside someone told you, you read or else. You purely focus on what works and what not and play concepts around it to why. By interconeccting a wide variety of games to a bigger picutre of understanding a net develops that now can stand some literature.\n\nNow is the point to decide what you are interested in and get literature for it. A would again suggest variety as it help to not get biased and be more open minded. Or maybe you cant really decide then you might want to start with classics like Clausewitz: On War, Sun Tzu: Art of War or maybe something more concrete like Infatry Attacks from Rommel.\n\nWhen you do all that and then start studing one book after another time flys by and it wont take long until your hit your legal age. Since your interest held so long and you proably build up a quite decent understanding of military tactics you might want to consider to enlist and become an officer.\n\nHere you have it. My life plan for you. I hope you put it to good use\\^\\^",
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"datetime": "2020-05-18",
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