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Am I the only person who is shocked to realize that this is the same Perun who does strategy gaming YouTube tutorials on a related channel!? I had seen a bunch of his Terra Invicta content… had no idea he also did actual military analysis? Is that what he does professionally in some capacity or is he just an amateur interested in this stuff with a fairly well researched YouTube channel?

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I believe in his earlier videos he mentioned that he isn't able to discuss Australian defense procurement on YouTube due to a conflict of interest with his day job.

He actually started with strategy gaming, then when Russia invaded he started his slideshows on the main channel and ended up with another channel for gaming.

Importantly he correctly predicted the entire broad course of the evolution of the war in the past two years in his first video on like day 10 of the conflict. I’m always impressed by his analysis each week, definitely a channel worth following and binge watching.

He does defence economics mostly for the Australian military, and liaising with allies. Probably a civilian contractor, possibly a think tank employee at an outfit like ASPI, but I doubt it.

I mean, as I watched him destroy my personal definition of what a military industry might look like in X4 I did start to make the connection with the similar sounding war economist I followed.

Complete with slideshows about what he was doing, how he planned to do it, and the logistics involved with becoming the supreme arms dealer and private army to half a dozen governments.

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