Milstack Saturday

28 March 2026

Mar 27, 2026

Elizabeth Thompson The Colours: Advance of the Scots Guard at the Alma (1899)

Milstack Saturday showcases the best articles on military subjects (other than the current conflict in the Persian Gulf) that I read in the preceding week. For links to noteworthy articles on the excepted topic, please see the special editions of Milstack devoted to it.

Natalie Monbiot condemns attempts to outsource judgement. (For more from Miss Monbiot, please see her conversation with Mark McGrath and Ponch Rivera on The Whirl of Reorientation.)

The Atlantic Passage tells the tale of the circumnavigation of Australia by warships of the Peoples’ Liberation Army.

In this ‘blast from the past’ (pun, as always, intended), Brett Friedman introduces the concept of ‘salvo warfare’.

Emma Salisbury reminds her American cousins to mind The Mine Gap.

The Weekly Signals Brief for this week provides three-paragraph précis of substantial pieces about the way Napoleon governed France, the reason Barbara Tuchman wrote so well, the role of the Bundeswehr in near-term NATO, and the value of genealogy.

For Further Reading