Ink Waves

13 August - 11 September 2024

Sep 11, 2024

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It’s time for another roundup of everything I’ve been writing and podcasting all around the internet. This month, I decided to create a new section of the site for my short fiction. I also published a science fiction story for the first time in light years. It will unlock for free subscribers on 22 September.

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Polemology Positions

The Deeper Battle of Kursk

Sunday night, the animated map below appeared on the X app. I cannot verify the authenticity of the cartography. No two geolocation experts can agree right now on exactly where in Kursk Oblast the Ukrainians are, or what they control. Rather than slow down, as many prognosticators suggested was the case on Sunday morning, by Monday morning it was clear that Russian units were being routed along the major axes of Ukrainian attack, and that the area of Ukrainian control had more than doubled in size. Here is what I published about the first week of the Kursk offensive on Sunday…

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