Milstack Saturday (21 December 2024)
The best articles on military subjects I read (or listened to) in the past week
After reading Fit, in which Austin Caroe, keeper of The Distro, reminds us to ‘match the person to the work and the work to the person’, I took a break from the drawing of organizational diagrams, went to the blackboard, and wrote a hundred times:
Positions don’t do tasks, people do.
Positions don’t run organizations, people do.After reading Dead Carl Lives!, in which Kiran Pfitzner argues us that the Schwerpunkt of the work of Carl von Clausewitz has survived the passing of the age sabers and shakos, I made an aggregator of the articles about Clausewitz that have appeared in The Tactical Notebook. (What else could I have done? There was no room on my blackboard to write anything else.)
After reading The Many Uses of the Jeep, in which Monique Taylor describes some of the many variants of the ‘Blitz Buggy’ built during World War II, I went looking in my favorite photo collections for additional adaptations. As I have come to expect, the Library of Congress provided ten times as many pictures of ‘the artist formerly known as Bantam’ than the National Archives. That said, the latter institution wins the prize for providing the most seasonally suitable photo of the ubiquitous quarter-ton truck.
Did I miss anything? Please use the comments section to post links to recently published articles that might interest readers of The Tactical Notebook.
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