It is sometimes said of war that " amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics ." This video shows how the British managed to supply a Task force including ships, planes and men at a distance of 8,000 miles, which the Argentine Junta had not believed to be possible. The Argentines were not wrong about the arithmetic of supply making it very difficult for Britain to sustain a fleet in the South Atlantic. The British knew that too. So they changed the arithmetic.

"I need a hero" (the version sung by Jennifer Saunders in Shrek II) with video from Luke Skywalker's hallway scene from the climax of "The Mandalorian" season II   

In his novel " Outbound Flight ," Timothy Zahn told the story of the expedition known as "Outbound Flight" which was led by Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth - and defeated by Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo of the Chiss navy, who would later become known a Grand Admiral Thrawn. In the follow-up novel " Survivor's Quest, " also by TImothy Zahn and set many years later, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara Jade went looking for, and found, the remains of the expedition. All these events take place in the Star Wars "Legends" universe and are not currently part of the Disney Star Wars canon On Outbound flight, fifty thousand colonists sailed beyond the edge of the charts. The Republic spent the rest of its existence pretending they had not.  In the fan fiction video below, the man who stopped them explains why he did so, on the one world in the galaxy where his guest is unable to take vengeance. The conversation takes place on Myrkr, hom...

 Fan fiction video in which Grand Admiral Thrawn and Captain Pellaeon discuss why the republic fell. From the legends "Heir to the empire" timeline rather than the Disney canon one, but practically everything in it transfers over.

"The Gandalara Cycle" which was published in the names of Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron between 1981 and 1986,is an imaginative work of science fiction which is essentially one long novel in seven volumes. The seven books in the cycle are: 1) The Steel of Raithscar 2) The Glass of Dyskornis 3) The Bronze of Eddarta 4) The Well of Darkness 5) The Search for Kä 6) Return to Eddarta 7) The River Wall In an authors' note at the conclusion of the final book, Vicki Ann Heydron explained the story of it's composition. The authors were husband and wife, and began planning the book as a joint project shortly after their marriage in 1975. An outline for the entire series and a draft of the first book, "The Steel of Raithscar" had nearly been completed when, in 1979, Randall Garrett contracted a viral infection which led to severe amnesia and made him unable to work Working from their joint outline, Vicki Heydron completed the work. She dedicated the last book ...