Milstack Saturday showcases the best articles I have read in the past week.
In his review of A Warrior’s Lament, Donald Vandergriff compares the memoirs of Asad Khan, of the American Marines, to the autobiography of David Hackwork, of the US Army.
The Warfare Mastery Institute has begun a series on urban warfare that, among many other things, contrasts techniques used in city fighting with those practiced during the ‘great war on terror’.
Charles Haywood applauds, in print and viva voce, an impressively detailed account of the operational art of Francisco Franco.
Compass Points documents the demise of the infamous ‘Force Design 2030’. (‘Retreat, Hell. This is an advance in a different direction'.’)
John Schmitt continues the series of tactical decision games begun with ‘Contact at the Seven Mounds’.
Commander Salamander describes the moment in which the Vietnamese Communist Party officially jettisoned … wait for it … Communism.
Communism is for getting into power.
Not being in power.
No one wants to live that way, certainly not the most bourgeois of materialists, the Socialists.
Communism is just bourgeois professors killing people to get power.