Just curious

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[keithmm.livejournal.com]

You're going to have to narrow it down a little more. Did it include a bit showing how the libertarian utopia of rugged individualists could create huge collaboration-heavy projects far better than those dumb collectivist socialists?

[(Anonymous)]

There's a bit in Probability Broach (subtitle, An Axe, Grinding) in which it is revealed that WWI was won by a bunch of American civilians flying to Europe, each packing his or her private firearm.

The Hun could not withstand them, you see, because civilians are always better armed than governments. How the Hun's artillery was silenced is left as an exercise for the reader, if I remember correctly. How their logistics was handled is not even mentioned. I have never been a soldier, but I'm guessing a market-based ammunition dump is not a cheery thought, particularly if everybody in the platoon (or whatever libertarian equivalent they use) is firing different caliber bullets.

- Ken