Milstack Saturday (14 September 2024)
The best Substack articles on military subjects I enjoyed in the past week
This week, I am showcasing newsletters that are new to me.
If you like Being Noble, The Bazaar of War, or Pardon My French, you will love the unique perspective on the Hundred Years War provided by La France en Feu. (Safety Warning: Reading this article may change the way you watch Henry V.)
The shakedown cruise of The Military Reading Room takes the form of a comprehensive review of Michael Shaara’s classic novel of the American Civil War, The Killer Angels. It also reminds me of a trick that professors at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College used to pull. Just before the start of a weekend, they would assign the first two chapters of the book, knowing full well that most students would not be able to stop until they had finished the whole thing.
Over at Beyond the Art of War, Democura explains that Sharpening our Military Command will require the dissolution of the gargantuan headquarters that abound in Anglospheric armies.
In The Bullet That Changed the World, Prester John’s Revenge argues that political violence is, at once, both futile and so deeply rooted in the human psyche as to be inevitable.
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Colonel Ted Campbell used to discuss the problem of metastasized command structures on his blog (sadly, no longer being published, as he's fighting cancer). Here's an example I excerpted that argues Canada has suffered military command overstaffing due in part to our perceived need to match the US - https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2017/09/17/american-military-command-and-control-as-adopted-by-the-canadian-military/