Milstack Saturday (19 October 2024)
Milstack Saturday (19 October 2024)
The best articles on military subjects I read in the past week
Such was the Stosstruppgeist of this week’s Milstack that I could not prevent it from making a precocious debut.
The Rescue offers much of value to platoon leaders, prospective platoon leaders, and those who teach by means of decision-forcing case studies.
Resources supplies a bureaucratic maneuver, worthy of Sir Humphrey Applebee himself, of great value to both commanders and training officers.
France and the Tyrant of the Sea provides excellent preparation for any study of warfare in the early modern period and, in particular, the reading of The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
Old and New juxtaposes images of some of the grand old warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy with photos of their present-day namesakes.
The first chapter of The Hard Country introduces readers to the complex, and frequently violent, relationship between the two great republics of North America.
Replacing ‘Bravo’ and ‘Charlie’ with Banjo and Chaos reminds us that respect for tradition in small things promotes innovation in important matters.
Paying Attention, Being Focused describes the benefits of combining interviews with veterans of a given unit with research into the records related to that outfit.
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May I politely point out that the surnames of senior British civil servants (at least of the 1970s-80s vintage) generally follow the orthographic conventions of Alban toponyms? E.g. Appleby-in-Westmoreland?