NationStates Jolt Archive

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)

useful... thankyou

:D Additions welcome...

Don't things like this usually get stickied?

I was playing with a friend and I shouted "Tag", in which he started to chase me...

Don't things like this usually get stickied?

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Thi military and economic calculators would be useful additions. :D

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http://www.fas.org/man/index.html for military info.

Thanks Super American VX Man. :D

Adding
http://www.janes.com/
and
www.geocities.com/thecitizensdefencealliance/making_a_military.html
and
http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/title1.html

(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).


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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.

Excellent

http://www.cdi.org/

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www.rand.org

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...

Yep. Some are new to me as well. 8)

Very nice, and very helpful.

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The FBI has some interesting info (http://www.fbi.gov/)

bumps and thanks you.

The FBI has some interesting info (http://www.fbi.gov/)

:shock:
Most interesting, and one we had not thought of....

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....

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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

http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/NationStates.html
An alternate front to thr GDP calculator.

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/

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

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tag, thanks!

Not only did I bump my head against the wall, I also encountered some kind of sticky substance when I was playing tag.

http://www.capitol.northgrum.com/links.html
More good links than you can shake a stick at. Budgets, congress, think tanks, etc.

The US Marine Corps is always useful....
http://www.usmc.mil/

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

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/

:D I feel your pain. I*m doing the same. Plus the same for my military....

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

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.

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I almost lost this thread today... and I need it more then ever...

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...

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....

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....

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....

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....

Excellent! Thank you Barentsburg. :D

http://twr.1colony.com/ver8/calc8.0.html

A GDP Calculator.

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

Thanks!
:::eyes light up at the diplo dictionary...::: :D:D:D

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)

Links to RL info, military or otherwise would be great. Also, if you have better SF links, those are also welcome. :D

Links to RL info, military or otherwise would be great. Also, if you have better SF links, those are also welcome. :D

Links to RL info, military or otherwise would be great. Also, if you have better SF links, those are also welcome. :D

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.)

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.

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

Tag.

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...

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