NationStates Jolt Archive


Online references

Daistallia
27-09-2003, 17:37
OOC: I thought it might be nice to share online references, especially for newer players, for military, political and statistical sources.

Here is a short list:

The NS Economic Calculator
http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php?nation=

Newre England's Military Calculators
www.geocities.com/thecitizensdefencealliance/making_a_military.html

Statistical information on real nations:
The CIA World Factbook is the source for many player nations statistical information:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

Nation Master offers lots of statistics, and is good for comparitive statistics:
http://www.nationmaster.com/

For military and startegic information, James Dunnigan is hard to beat. A long time military issues analyst and war game designer:
http://www.strategypage.com/

"The Scrapboard" has some good articles.
http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/title1.html

For details of weapons systems and military, Global Security is a NS data-holics standard:
http://www.globalsecurity.org
http://www.fas.org/man/index.html

For real geopolitics, Strategic Forecasting:
http://www.stratfor.com

For information on real AFVs (tanks, APCs, etc.), Tank Net is very good:
http://www.tank-net.org/

Two pages on Special Operations Forces. Get an idea of how real SOFs operate and are organized:
http://www.specialoperations.com/
http://www.specwarnet.net/

For data on firearms:
http://world.guns.ru/

War Cat has good essays on tactics and future tech, but has deteriorated a bit:
http://web.qx.net/warcat/milsf/

Jane's Defence Weekly - chock full of defence related articles
http://www.janes.com/


Great detail on firearm principals of operation:
http://www.rkba.org/guns/principles/
Firearms tutorial:
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINTRO.html
samll arms glossaries:
http://w3.agsfoundation.com/safety/gloss_menu.html
http://www.snipercountry.com/Comp.htm

Military Glossaries:
http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/government-politics-military/military/default.asp
http://www.urbanoperations.com/glossary.htm
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/glossary/blglossary.htm

Haze Gray and Underway: truely excellent naval resource - includes a listing of almost all modern fleets:
http://www.hazegray.org/

US Marine Corps fact file - detailed info on militray equipment...
http://www.hqmc.usmc.mil/factfile.nsf/AVE?openview&count=3000

Instruments and treaties related to the Laws Armed Conflict:
These are commonly referred to as the Geneva conventions, but are so much more.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auoy.htm

Please post other online sources.

(Mods: I would like to keep this in the NationStates forum with the other how to threads, please)
Pilon
27-09-2003, 18:17
useful... thankyou
Daistallia
27-09-2003, 18:41
:D Additions welcome...
27-09-2003, 18:42
Don't things like this usually get stickied?
Iuthia
27-09-2003, 18:52
I was playing with a friend and I shouted "Tag", in which he started to chase me...
Daistallia
28-09-2003, 03:13
Don't things like this usually get stickied?

:D
Daistallia
29-09-2003, 05:28
Bump

Thi military and economic calculators would be useful additions. :D
Allemonde
29-09-2003, 05:35
bump
Daistallia
30-09-2003, 14:26
bump
Daistallia
01-10-2003, 05:24
bump
Daistallia
05-10-2003, 16:10
bump
Super American VX Man
05-10-2003, 16:13
http://www.fas.org/man/index.html for military info.
Daistallia
05-10-2003, 16:23
Thanks Super American VX Man. :D
Daistallia
09-10-2003, 06:06
Adding
http://www.janes.com/
and
www.geocities.com/thecitizensdefencealliance/making_a_military.html
and
http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/title1.html
Western Asia
09-10-2003, 06:53
(The following is grabbed directly from the 10th page of the "New to NS?" thread (which this should be added to :wink: ), but it goes well here):

I wrote the following.

Some good GlobalSecurity sections
US Weapons Systems: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/

World Military guide: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/index.html

US Military (all branches, much info): http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/index.html

WMD capabilities and systems: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/index.html

General Intelligence (systems for data collection and countries for info on their intell agencies): http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/index.html

As for google, well, I take it that you know how to do a google search.

Other resources for weapons and such:
Naval systems in development by major countries and contractors: http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/index.html

Ground warfare systems in development by major countries and contractors: http://www.army-technology.com/projects/index.html

Military aircraft systems in development by major countries and contractors: http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/index.html

Mixed military and civilian aircraft systems in development by major countries and contractors: http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/index.html

A wonderful and frequently-updated site with listings of all sorts of Israeli weaponry: http://www.israeli-weapons.com/israeli_weapons.html (my personal favorite).


Ell wrote the following:


Some more sites I like, mainly about Chinese equipment:

http://www.emeraldesigns.com/matchup/military.shtml
PRC vs ROC : Compares Taiwan's and China's military equipment

www.aeronautics.ru
A site mainly about Russian aircraft

www.sinodefence.com
http://www.china-defense.com/
Same here...Sinodefence is better.
Daistallia
09-10-2003, 07:08
Excellent
Daistallia
09-10-2003, 19:08
http://www.cdi.org/
Slagkattunger
10-10-2003, 04:47
<tag>
10-10-2003, 04:59
#tag#
Daistallia
10-10-2003, 15:11
www.rand.org
Nianacio
10-10-2003, 15:42
It looks pretty good, except for one thing. You're giving out my secret resources! :o:x:D
Although some of them are new to me. I will have to visit them...
Daistallia
10-10-2003, 15:55
Yep. Some are new to me as well. 8)
imported_Celeborne
10-10-2003, 16:21
Very nice, and very helpful.
Daistallia
11-10-2003, 11:24
bump
imported_Celeborne
13-10-2003, 05:18
Had to bump
imported_Celeborne
14-10-2003, 10:42
I love this post
imported_Celeborne
16-10-2003, 08:31
The FBI has some interesting info (http://www.fbi.gov/)
16-10-2003, 08:45
bumps and thanks you.
Daistallia
16-10-2003, 17:00
The FBI has some interesting info (http://www.fbi.gov/)

:shock:
Most interesting, and one we had not thought of....
Daistallia
18-10-2003, 18:32
http://www.strategypage.com/humor/default.asp?target=military_humor_murphys_laws_of_combat.htm

One of many versions of *Murphys Laws of Combat*. Should be required reading before goingto war....
Daistallia
21-10-2003, 04:49
bump
Daistallia
23-10-2003, 18:51
Great detail on firearm principals of operation:
http://www.rkba.org/guns/principles/
Firearms tutorial:
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINTRO.html
samll arms glossaries:
http://w3.agsfoundation.com/safety/gloss_menu.html
http://www.snipercountry.com/Comp.htm
Daistallia
23-10-2003, 18:52
Military Glossaries:
http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/government-politics-military/military/default.asp
http://www.urbanoperations.com/glossary.htm
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/glossary/blglossary.htm
Daistallia
30-10-2003, 19:33
http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/NationStates.html
An alternate front to thr GDP calculator.
Daistallia
30-10-2003, 19:36
The US Drug Enforcement Agency has some interesting data. I gleaned a lot from here for my (now defunct) Cocaine storefront.
www.usdoj.gov/dea/
Daistallia
01-11-2003, 20:25
A few texts on line:
Machiavelli*s The Prince
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Nicolo_Machiavelli/The_Prince/index.html

Karl Von Causwitz*s On War
http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/On_War/ONWARTOC.html
Daistallia
05-11-2003, 05:39
bump
Larkinia
05-11-2003, 05:41
tag, thanks!
Vrak
05-11-2003, 05:55
Not only did I bump my head against the wall, I also encountered some kind of sticky substance when I was playing tag.
Daistallia
07-11-2003, 17:32
http://www.capitol.northgrum.com/links.html
More good links than you can shake a stick at. Budgets, congress, think tanks, etc.
Daistallia
08-11-2003, 18:29
The US Marine Corps is always useful....
http://www.usmc.mil/
Daistallia
17-11-2003, 20:13
And one for those who really, truelly have more time to play with NS than I do: Constitutions of the world! Anyone else working up their constitution out there?
http://www.constitution.org/cons/natlcons.htm
Nianacio
17-11-2003, 20:28
Anyone else working up their constitution out there?Yes. And I'm basing it off of the really long ones, and I only do a little bit at a time, so it's not going to be finished any time soon.

Another web page on constitutions:
http://confinder.richmond.edu/
Daistallia
17-11-2003, 20:30
:D I feel your pain. I*m doing the same. Plus the same for my military....
Daistallia
25-11-2003, 19:52
Added the Laws of Armed Conflict:
Instruments and treaties related to the Laws Armed Conflict:
These are commonly referred to as the Geneva conventions, but are so much more.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auoy.htm
Nianacio
30-11-2003, 22:50
Not sure if you're using poor grammar? Look at the following link!
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html
This post was brought to you by yet another person referring to himself as myself.
Iuthia
02-02-2004, 16:02
bump!

I almost lost this thread today... and I need it more then ever...
Daistallia 2104
02-02-2004, 18:25
OOC: Thanks Luthia. :D

BTW, I Plan to be adding a whol bunch more doon as Daistallia 2104.... lots of future stuff in the works...
Daistallia 2104
02-02-2004, 18:44
Useful SF links

For writers
Cyberpunk http://www.wirewd.com/cybrpunk/ - a cyberpunk writing guidebook. Includes characters, settings, and good and bad tech.

SFWRG http://sfwrg.org/index.html - lots and lots and lots of SF tech links (a bit old, so some are dead)

GDW games (Game Designers Workshop was a great old pencil and paper RPG publisher that did some great hard SF games, especially traveller and 2300 AD, as well as my personal fav, Twilight 2000.)
Edward Fok*s armor http://traveller.mu.org/house/alt_materials.html - armor tech layed out simply for the novice - a good place to start researching
Traveller warbook http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm
Other traveller stuff (especially gearhead stuff):
http://traveller.mu.org/house/
http://weapons.travellercentral.com/index.html - good list on weapons tech
http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm - Traveller warbook
2300 AD stuff
http://www.kurotokage.org/2300AD/Bookmarks.html Lots of bookmarks
http://www.caco.demon.co.uk/2300ad/2300ad.html - Good spacecraft design material (but incomplete).

Science and tech articles:
http://www.spacefuture.com/
http://www.nrel.gov/otec/
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=60 Bruce Sterling*s Islands in the Net tech - great for cyberpunk/near future

More to come... :D
Note: I will keep up with mod tech as well, and plan to reorganize the OP too....
Daistallia 2104
02-02-2004, 18:45
Useful SF links

For writers
Cyberpunk http://www.wirewd.com/cybrpunk/ - a cyberpunk writing guidebook. Includes characters, settings, and good and bad tech.

SFWRG http://sfwrg.org/index.html - lots and lots and lots of SF tech links (a bit old, so some are dead)

GDW games (Game Designers Workshop was a great old pencil and paper RPG publisher that did some great hard SF games, especially traveller and 2300 AD, as well as my personal fav, Twilight 2000.)
Edward Fok*s armor http://traveller.mu.org/house/alt_materials.html - armor tech layed out simply for the novice - a good place to start researching
Traveller warbook http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm
Other traveller stuff (especially gearhead stuff):
http://traveller.mu.org/house/
http://weapons.travellercentral.com/index.html - good list on weapons tech
http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm - Traveller warbook
2300 AD stuff
http://www.kurotokage.org/2300AD/Bookmarks.html Lots of bookmarks
http://www.caco.demon.co.uk/2300ad/2300ad.html - Good spacecraft design material (but incomplete).

Science and tech articles:
http://www.spacefuture.com/
http://www.nrel.gov/otec/
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=60 Bruce Sterling*s Islands in the Net tech - great for cyberpunk/near future

More to come... :D
Note: I will keep up with mod tech as well, and plan to reorganize the OP too....
Daistallia 2104
02-02-2004, 18:46
Daistallia 2104
02-02-2004, 18:47
Daistallia 2104
02-02-2004, 18:48
Useful SF links

For writers
Cyberpunk http://www.wirewd.com/cybrpunk/ - a cyberpunk writing guidebook. Includes characters, settings, and good and bad tech.

SFWRG http://sfwrg.org/index.html - lots and lots and lots of SF tech links (a bit old, so some are dead)

GDW games (Game Designers Workshop was a great old pencil and paper RPG publisher that did some great hard SF games, especially traveller and 2300 AD, as well as my personal fav, Twilight 2000.)
Edward Fok*s armor http://traveller.mu.org/house/alt_materials.html - armor tech layed out simply for the novice - a good place to start researching
Traveller warbook http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm
Other traveller stuff (especially gearhead stuff):
http://traveller.mu.org/house/
http://weapons.travellercentral.com/index.html - good list on weapons tech
http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm - Traveller warbook
2300 AD stuff
http://www.kurotokage.org/2300AD/Bookmarks.html Lots of bookmarks
http://www.caco.demon.co.uk/2300ad/2300ad.html - Good spacecraft design material (but incomplete).

Science and tech articles:
http://www.spacefuture.com/
http://www.nrel.gov/otec/
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=60 Bruce Sterling*s Islands in the Net tech - great for cyberpunk/near future

More to come... :D
Note: I will keep up with mod tech as well, and plan to reorganize the OP too....
Daistallia 2104
02-02-2004, 18:49
Useful SF links

For writers
Cyberpunk http://www.wirewd.com/cybrpunk/ - a cyberpunk writing guidebook. Includes characters, settings, and good and bad tech.

SFWRG http://sfwrg.org/index.html - lots and lots and lots of SF tech links (a bit old, so some are dead)

GDW games (Game Designers Workshop was a great old pencil and paper RPG publisher that did some great hard SF games, especially traveller and 2300 AD, as well as my personal fav, Twilight 2000.)
Edward Fok*s armor http://traveller.mu.org/house/alt_materials.html - armor tech layed out simply for the novice - a good place to start researching
Traveller warbook http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm
Other traveller stuff (especially gearhead stuff):
http://traveller.mu.org/house/
http://weapons.travellercentral.com/index.html - good list on weapons tech
http://www.ace-dog.com/warbook/index.htm - Traveller warbook
2300 AD stuff
http://www.kurotokage.org/2300AD/Bookmarks.html Lots of bookmarks
http://www.caco.demon.co.uk/2300ad/2300ad.html - Good spacecraft design material (but incomplete).

Science and tech articles:
http://www.spacefuture.com/
http://www.nrel.gov/otec/
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=60 Bruce Sterling*s Islands in the Net tech - great for cyberpunk/near future

More to come... :D
Note: I will keep up with mod tech as well, and plan to reorganize the OP too....
Daistallia 2104
17-02-2004, 19:49
Excellent! Thank you Barentsburg. :D
Enerica
17-02-2004, 20:06
http://twr.1colony.com/ver8/calc8.0.html

A GDP Calculator.
Aerion
17-02-2004, 20:15
Glossary of Diplomatic Terms:
http://www.washdiplomat.com/glossary.html

Royal and Noble Styles (Appropriate address and titles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_and_noble_styles
Daistallia 2104
17-02-2004, 20:31
Thanks!
:::eyes light up at the diplo dictionary...::: :D:D:D
Nianacio
17-02-2004, 20:32
Do you want official web sites of RL militaries?

Cyberpunk http://www.wirewd.com/cybrpunk/ - a cyberpunk writing guidebook. Includes characters, settings, and good and bad tech.Hmmm...Some of the "Good Tech" stuff is misleading or incorrect, but it appears to be worth a look, anyway...
Science and tech articles:
http://www.spacefuture.com/I'm going to have to browse through that, too. 8)
Daistallia 2104
17-02-2004, 20:45
Links to RL info, military or otherwise would be great. Also, if you have better SF links, those are also welcome. :D
Daistallia 2104
17-02-2004, 20:45
Links to RL info, military or otherwise would be great. Also, if you have better SF links, those are also welcome. :D
Daistallia 2104
17-02-2004, 20:45
Links to RL info, military or otherwise would be great. Also, if you have better SF links, those are also welcome. :D
Nianacio
17-02-2004, 21:08
Links to RL info, military or otherwise would be great. Also, if you have better SF links, those are also welcome. :DWarp Drive When?
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/warp.htm
Science @ NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/
Swedish Armed Forces
http://www.mil.se/?lang=eng
Swiss Armed Forces
http://www.vbs-ddps.ch/internet/vbs/en/home/rund.html
The Finnish Defense Forces
http://www.mil.fi/english/
Portuguese Air Force
http://www.emfa.pt/faping/
New Zealand Defense Force
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/
Singapore armed forces
http://www.mindef.gov.sg/
Norwegian Defence
http://www.mil.no/languages/english/start/
Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces (DND/CF)
http://www.dnd.ca/
Australian Government, Department of Defence
http://www.defence.gov.au/index.cfm
French Ministry of Defense
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/index_ang.html
Armed Forces of the Philippines
http://www.afp.mil.ph/
Israel Defense Forces IDF News and Information
http://www.idf.il/newsite/english/main.stm
Indian Armed Forces
http://armedforces.nic.in/
Ministry of National Defence, Greece
http://www.mod.gr/
Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
http://www.mod.uk/
Ministry of defence, Thailand
http://www.mod.go.th/eng_mod/index.html
Ministry of Defence, Army of the CR
http://www.army.cz/scripts/detail.php?pgid=103
Belgian military
http://www.mil.be/def/index.asp?LAN=E
Danish Defence
http://forsvaret.dk/fko/eng/
Egyptian Armed Forces
http://www.mmc.gov.eg/
The Irish Defence Forces
http://www.military.ie/
Ministry of Defence, Macedonia
http://www.morm.gov.mk/
Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Defense
http://www.mors.si/mors/eng/
Republic of Poland Ministry of National Defence
http://www.wp.mil.pl/start.php?page=1000000001
Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands
http://www.mindef.nl:30280/nieuws/media/170701_dailynews.html

(Most of these came from two sites. I'm going through both and picking out the working links.)
Hattia
17-02-2004, 22:24
That bloody Tag keeps making my neck itch.

Do any of those have the prices for equipment, I don't feel like looking through them all.
Nianacio
18-02-2004, 01:45
Two more!

U.S. Department of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/
Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic
http://www.mod.gov.sk/english/index.asp
Khrrck
18-02-2004, 04:23
Tag.
Nianacio
18-02-2004, 21:38
Ministry of National Defense, Republic of Korea
http://www.mnd.go.kr/
Japan Defense Agency
http://www.jda.go.jp/e/index_.htm
Spanish Air Force
http://www.ejercitodelaire.mde.es/(G)Publicaciones/Paginas_WEB_Internet/WebEng.nsf/index.html?OpenFrameSet
Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus
http://www.mod.mil.by/news_eng.html

I wonder how many more official sites I can find...
Daistallia 2104
17-03-2004, 09:45
Bump
An updated work is on it*s way....