Milstack Saturday
13 June 2026
(Grande Guerre en Dessins)Milstack Saturday showcases the best articles on military subjects (more or less) that I read in the preceding week. Please note that, while I await the publication of additional articles about tactical aspects of the war in the Persian Gulf, Milstack Special has gone into occlusion.
In Shantytown, Monique Taylor tells the tale of a glider assembly base that glider assemblers made out of the crates that had carried disassembled gilders. (Please file under ‘interesting things that used to be trees’.)
In The Case for Belt-Feds, Captain Karl Flynn, of the American Marines, calls for the use of ‘constant recoil’ light machine guns to shoot at, among other things, unmanned aircraft and creepy-crawly robots.
In Abbiamo un Problema con i Deep Fires, Fabio Ruggio explains that, notwithstanding the proliferation of long-range munitions, they work best when their work complements the actions of forces in contact. He also reminds us that, thanks to the availability of translation programs, we can read articles in languages foreign to us.
In the most recent installment of his series on Reflections on Great Historians, Nick Lloyd (who may remember me from his days on the War Studies faculty at R.M.A. Sandhurst) celebrates the achievements, both literary and historical, of Shelby Foote.
In Wargaming Weekly #072, Rwizi Rweizooba Ainomugisha shares downloadable copies of Assisting Security, a solitaire micro-wargame about (you guessed it) security force assistance.
In The Librarian of Celaeno’s Top 10 Underrated Stacks, The (You Guessed it) Librarian of Calaeno celebrates nine Substack authors who might be new to you. (The tenth walks the earth as the person I describe with the help of a perpendicular pronoun. Thank you, LoC!)
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