Right, but who is doing the agreeing? Are you agreeing to rules just by virtue of being in Clan X? Or do just the heads of the two rivalrous clans agree to terms, and they enforce the rules upon their own clan?
But no matter what, not all rules can be enforced 100% of the time in any system.
Yeah, it’s too bad we let that other thread die. We’ll have to necro it sometime.
I actually found a section in a poker book that talks about computing odds that is applicable to the calculations we were talking about (in that other thread). I have been meaning to take some screenshots and arrange to post them.
Please do, when you get a chance.
There are a few threads, popping out now and then, where one can palpably feel the fear of the simple concept of self-determination. Rather strange for a libertarian forum, I’d say.
In which case the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a great conflict to study. You had the widely practiced institution of prisoners exchange, countless number of informal cease-fire agreements made at the lower levels, bustling trade across the front lines (and therefore between enemies) in food (to areas supposedly blockaded), in fuel (to the embargoed Serbs) and in munitions. And seeing it was a four-way civil war it had some unique dynamics, like the good old shifting alliances, hooking up with your nominal enemies to fight your supposed allies, or even your former army (in the case of break-away Bosnian Muslims), or the lovely institution of heavy munitions renting. At the heyday of the Muslim-Croat war in Bosnia there was actually a going rate per shell the Serbs would charge to fire against your Muslim or Croat foes respectively. There’s so much focus on the negative, but really in many respects it was a remarkably civilized war with all kind of highly advanced commercial and diplomatic activity going on.
Thats awesome.
any idea if the rates that were available have been recorded anywhere? Or do I have to interview people
No, I don’t think so there wasn’t a serious attempt at recording of this sort. The only thing there is is that some news piece will come out claiming this or that number. For example here. If you use google translate you will learn a witness at the ICTY, a VRS officer claims a tank could be rented for 30,000 DEM (I assume this included the crew) and that the Bosnian Serb military earned between 12 and 15 million DEM letting heavy weapons like this.
Also I should add something, it was not a bidding war between Bosnian Muslims and Croats for the same pieces of equipment, as you may have gathered from my previous post on the account the Serbs were generally willing to lease to the Bosnian-Herzegovinan Muslims only in the northern Herzegovina theatre (where the Croats had the upper hand) and to the Bosnian-Herzegovian Croats only in the Central Bosnia theatre (where the Muslims had the upper hand). So they were doing this out of their strategic calculation, but they also wanted to be paid for it if possible. So it wasn’t as highly civilized and commercial profit-driven as it could have been, but still a lot better than nothing.
Thanks Marko!