Milstack Saturday (8 February 2025)
The best of the things I read, listened to, or watched in the past week
Austin Caroe, of The Distro, taught me much about the art of Communication, and, in particular, the role played by immediate circumstances in the reception of a message. (To put things bluntly, there’s no point in telling soldiers fighting at Stalingrad that smoking cigarettes is bad for their health.)
Ben Duval, of The Bazaar of War, convinced me of that there was more to ‘A War on Many Stages’ than Marlborough’s victory at Blenheim.
Appearing on the podcast of The Whirl of Orientation, Natalie MonbiotYT made me think about the art of balancing ‘Innovation, Ethics, and Human Creativity’, especially where large language models are concerned.
The discovery that my old friend Donald Vandergriff started a blog on Substack reminded me of the remarkable work he has done over the years, as a leader, a teacher, and a writer.
The History of the Second World War has just completed a thirty-episode examination of the German invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France in the spring of 1940. Weighing in at fifteen hours or so, that splendid series does an especially good job of describing events from French points of view.
Readers embarking on the study of the aforementioned campaign way wish to begin with Sieg im Westen [Victory in the West]. (An English-language version of this German propaganda filmBC can be found on Bitchute.)
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