Milstack Saturday (8 March 2025)
The best of what I read, watched, or listened to in the past week
History LegendsYT, who cut his teeth as a reviewer of war films, provides a point-by-point critique of ‘The Daily Mail’s Video on Bakhmut’YT. In doing so, he underscores many of the points made here at The Tactical Notebook more than a year-and-a-half ago.
Another accomplished film reviewer, who vlogs as Morgoth, reviews a book-length report that proposes that, in the event of a crisis that disrupts the precarious food supply of the United Kingdom, control over the distribution of food be passed to ‘community level organizations’. (If he lived in a land that allowed free speech, Morgoth would probably have entitled his piece … The Wrath of Khan.)
At War Quants, Sean Harper contends that, should the United States go to war with China, the US Navy would want to deploy thirty or so percent of its surface fleet to the waters around Taiwan by a route that runs through the Gulf of Mexico America and the Panama Canal.
Speaking of the US Navy …
Auftragstaktik maven Donald Vandergriff provides a portal to Mission Command in the Age of Sail, a case study in which Josh Weiss, a serving officer of the senior Sea Service, examines the problem faced by a British naval officer, who, in the annus mirabilis of 1815, found himself in receipt of instructions that had been ‘overcome by events’. (For a direct link to the full article, please visit the website of the Naval War College Review.)
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BC indicates a link to a video on Bitchute.
AC will take you to the website of a college, university, or university press.
Links that lack superscripts will take you to a page on Substack.
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