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COLLAPSE: When Power Stops Paying for Itself
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Expected 5 Jun 2660 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication June 5, 2026
About the author
Alexander Capatana
15 booksAlexander Capatana writes history as structure—not as myth.
His work rejects the “Great Man” narrative and focuses on the mechanics that make outcomes inevitable: industrial capacity, coordination costs, administrative overload, and systemic lock-in.
His central thesis is simple:
History does not turn on decisions—decisions turn inside systems already in motion.
Wars continue not because leaders insist, but because mobilization becomes irreversible. Empires collapse not because they are defeated, but because scale becomes too expensive to maintain.
Capatana’s books explore the hidden layer beneath events:
War as throughput
Diplomacy as theater
Victory as irreversibility
Empire as constraint
Collapse as accounting
He writes for readers who want the real logic behind war, empire, and power—without moral mythology, nostalgia, or ideological noise.
His work rejects the “Great Man” narrative and focuses on the mechanics that make outcomes inevitable: industrial capacity, coordination costs, administrative overload, and systemic lock-in.
His central thesis is simple:
History does not turn on decisions—decisions turn inside systems already in motion.
Wars continue not because leaders insist, but because mobilization becomes irreversible. Empires collapse not because they are defeated, but because scale becomes too expensive to maintain.
Capatana’s books explore the hidden layer beneath events:
War as throughput
Diplomacy as theater
Victory as irreversibility
Empire as constraint
Collapse as accounting
He writes for readers who want the real logic behind war, empire, and power—without moral mythology, nostalgia, or ideological noise.
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