Milstack Saturday (18 January 2025)
The best articles on military subjects I read in the past week
Over at Cracking Defense, Matthew Palmer provides us with an introduction to the ‘Joint Expeditionary Force’, an ‘alliance within an alliance’ of the ‘beer-drinking nations of the North’.
Cracking Defense, which I discovered this past week, strikes me as a cross between Jane’s Defence Weekly and classic British humor magazine Punch - note the double entendre in the title. So, if you would like a British perspective on military matters served up with a side order of irony, you’ll find much of interest in that newsletter.
Speaking of irony …
Ben Duval, proprietor of The Bazaar of War, introduces us to the ‘Red Commissars of the Serene Republic of Venice’. So, if you are looking for a new perspective on the places where politics meet tables of organization, this article will fill the bill. (I especially enjoyed Maestro Duval’s characterization of Niccolò Machiavelli as ‘Florentine playwright’.)
While you are sampling the wares at The Bazaar of War, be sure to peruse ‘Why Study the Wars of Louis XIV’. (The piece makes the point, often raised here at The Tactical Notebook, that present-day wars often resemble those of the eighteenth century.)
Aurelian, at Trying to Understand the World, offers describes war-ending agreements that, when taken together, establish the (very broad) left and right lateral limits of what might happen ‘When Ukraine is over …’
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Poor Niccolo. So misunderstood.
So abused.
I am so glad to be obscure.