‘Toto, something tells me that we’re not in Kansas anymore.’
On YouTube, History Legends provides an introduction on the brief battle between the air forces India and Pakistan that took place on 6 and 7 May 2025. Here on Substack, Sarcastosaurus takes a deeper dive into the clash, which he sees as a conventional strike that deprived a nuclear power of its ability to deliver atomic ordnance. (In keeping with that theme, Sarcastosaurus has also published a piece called There’s No Such Thing as a Tactical Nuke.)
Also on YouTube, Mark Walsh, who vlogs under the nom de guerre of Feral Philosophy, offers some interesting thoughts on both the likelihood of a civil war in Great Britain and the shape such a conflict might take. Like David Betz, Mr. Walsh pays a lot of attention to infrastructure and logistics. In addition, he contemplates some of the unusual alliances that might form and the role that outside powers might play.
In the first installment of The War Quants Counter UAS Primer (YouTube) Sean Harper explores the new frontier of fighting in places where cheap (but far from cheerful) robots blacken the sky.
‘That, My Dear, is a horse of a different color.’
At the Harding Project (also on Substack), Jason Atwell explores several ways - some old and many new - to study the military geography of a given corner of the globe. Marvelous to say, all of the cases that he mentions, and the links that he provides, deal with places on the western border of the Russian Federation.
In a piece posted to his blog (The Way of the Sword), Michel Goya ponders the possibility of an escape from position warfare in Ukraine. A scholar of, among other things, the First World War, Colonel Goya points to a number of factors that preserve the stalemate, not the least of which is a shortage of both artillery shells and the tubes that send them into the sky.
Resonance Strategy from COL Goya is new to me.