The Quantico Renaissance
Blast from the Past
Clio Avatar, the time traveling spokesmuse for the Tactical Notebook, recommends the following articles to readers interested in the golden age of the maneuver warfare movement within the Marine Corps, the era that Harry Summers called the ‘Quantico Renaissance.’
By the way, if you would like to taste some of the fruits of the garden planted in those years, a good place to start is Shadowbox Decision Games: Warfighters, a Substack that allows you to work through map problems designed by John Schmitt, who, to use an expression that had yet to be coined in 1989, might well be described as the ‘OG of the Marine Corps TDG’.











