Milstack Saturday

21 February 2026

Elizabeth Thompson To the Front (1888-1889)

The Warfare Mastery Institute reminds us that many seemingly promising innovations crash and burn. (If you read one article this week, this should be it.)

The Armed Historian compares the success that Russia has enjoyed in Ukraine to the losses that it suffered in Syria.

Trent Lithgoe tells military writers to skip the ‘throat clearing’ that prevents them from getting straight to the point.

John Schmitt puts you in the boots of a platoon commander charged with protecting a missile unit while ‘Under Surveillance’.

The American Tribune compares the way Great Britain recovered from the Napoleonic Wars to the way the United Kingdom managed the aftermath Second World War.

Brandan Rapp describes the way that logistics and politics, geography and psychology, culture and genius came together in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862.

For Further Reading

The Gateway

The Warfare Mastery Institute