Ian's treatises on America's War Game

Collecting columns on space force theory, planet theory, and the way physics impacts football strategy.

Before I decided to launch a substack, I was working on a second book. The first book was “Flyover Football: How the Big 12 became the frontier for modern offense” and the second book was going to be detail space force theory, the geometry and physics of the game, and perhaps featuring broader themes about football’s place as the nation’s favorite war game.

I hadn’t totally worked it out yet and was teasing out a number of creative/crazy ideas about structuring it when my buddy Jonathan Tjarks suggested I should start my own substack. I realized that for both me and any potential readers, that was actually a better bargain than another Amazon kindle/paperback.

I could write and collect all those essays as part of the normal content flow of the site, and instead of buying an extra book, regular readers could maintain access to what otherwise would have been a book.

The catch is that the archives of America’s War Game are already pretty extensive, so to function as a book, all the essays that would have comprised it needed to be collected in an easy accessible way.

So here we go.