Friday Nerd Blogging: A Day Early

20 September 2012, 1200 EDT

Check out this wonderfully exhaustive application of bureaucratic politics to Star Wars.  The basic argument is that it was not the rebellion that really doomed the Empire but inter-service rivalry. 

The best line involves the Army’s limited motivation to help the Navy (who lost the plans to the Death Star).  I will not give it away here. 

Enjoy!