Milstack Saturday (5 October 2024)

The best articles on military subjects I read (or listened to) in the past week

Oct 05, 2024

As I spent last week in the grip of the grippe, I didn’t do a great deal of reading. I did, however, fuel my fever dreams by listening to thought-provoking audio programs. Thus, this week’s Milstack will be much less Stubstackesque, and much more Podkästlich, than you have come to expect.

In the two episodes that the Rest is History devoted to the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Agincourt, the hosts, Tom Holland and Dominick Sandbrook, do a splendid job of bringing that operation to life. In one of the five episodes they have produced on the life of Martin Luther, they do much the same for the Peasants War of 1524.

The Other States Podcast, which casts a wide, and delightfully eclectic, net over the early history of what would become the US and Canada, told the tale of the short-lived federation of some (but not all) of the component colonies of New England.

Over at The Connecting File, Lieutenant Lucas Scher of the American Marines explains How to Build and Employ a Grunt Friendly Analyzer that allows a small-unit leader to spot Spectrum Danger Zones. In doing this, he reminds us that electronic warfare, which was once the exclusive domain of blokes and boffins reporting to authorities of the stratospheric persuasion is now everybody’s business. (Radio Shack™, we hardly knew ye!)

The Axis Tactics Newsletter, which proffers investment advice, offers so little of interest to the readers of The Tactical Notebook that I see no point in providing a link. Nonetheless, the fact that a reasonably literate person could choose that name for his blog indicates that, eighty years after the end of the Second World War, we have finally escaped from the shadow of that great conflagration.

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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