This issue of Milstack celebrates the best articles (or series of articles) I read in the past year. It is also the last to feature the paintings of Édouard Detaille.
Michael Teefy suggests ways to prepare platoons for the most common challenge faced by forward deployed Marines.
Jacob Gemmill calls for the provision of a ‘mini-library’ to every desk occupied by duty NCOs.
Commander Salamander traces the deep roots of the inability of the United States to make the sort of drones that present-day warfare requires.
In How Marketing Hijacked Strategy, Mike Jones reminded me of the many times general officers (or their minions), who should have been looking for fresh ideas, asked me to provide them with new slogans.
In Contested Crossing: Fighting Across Rivers in the Gunpowder Age, Ben Duval treats us to five accounts of attempts to move armies across substantial streams.
Milstack Saturday, which showcases the best articles I read each week, will return on Friday, 2 January 2026.
