Milstack Saturday

1 August 2026

Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour The Riflemen of the Seine (1879)

Milstack Saturday showcases the best articles I read on Substack in the past seven days.

Democura compares today’s drones to the tanks of the 1930s.

Fred compares today’s fashion for fragile feelings to our duty to others.

Delwin compares compares the ‘offensive efficiency’ of Russia to that of Ukraine.

Shadowbox Decision Games: Warfighters asks readers to compose and compare several courses of action.

The Operational Art of War continues to compare Operation Desert Storm (Iraq, 1991) and Operation Epic Fury (Iran, 2026). So far, he has examined:

• the size and composition of each air fleet

• the types and volumes of munitions used

• the areas of operations

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