Milstack Saturday
26 July 2025
Donald Vandergriff showcases a first-hand report from the battlefields of Ukraine, one rich in details about the way soldiers employ - and avoid - drones.
Michael Teefy suggests ways to prepare platoons for the most common challenge faced by forward deployed Marines.
C.J. Douglas and John F. Schmitt pose a pair of dilemmas of kinds that rarely appear in tactical decision games.
Movie maven Morgoth compares his experience of the ‘Summer of Kindling’ in the British Isles to the first few minutes of films like Robocop and Total Recall.
B.A. Friedman recounts the time that Andrew Jackson (whom you may remember from the twenty-dollar bill) tried to disband the US Marine Corps.
Jacob Gemmill calls for the provision of a ‘mini-library’ to every desk occupied by duty NCOs.
I have commented on the fascinating proposal to extend Academia into the barracks, a logical enough development.
I shared the below.
Just trying to be positive.
“Fascinating. What a peaceful barracks.
Next we’ll give them Homework assignments.
They can study how to be Bail Bondsmen and even lawyers for all the mostly peaceful service members they’ll be bailing out of jail while the barracks runs free…
Monday’s will be very interesting as well with the new depleted units, perhaps these scholars can find a regulation where Troops in jail can still count as present for duty on readiness status reports. Over time DOD can again lead the way in social engineering and efficient social justice by simply combining the school to penitentiary pipeline into one facility, the ne plus ultima of American Pedagogy.
Even Michigan hasn’t achieved such heights.”