Milstack Saturday

14 March 2026

Elizabeth Thompson In the Retreat from Mons, The Royal Horse Guards (1927)

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.

Michael Downing proposes enhancements to the skills and the status of grenadiers.

B.A. Friedman sketches out a project to place the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 into the broader context of British amphibious warfare.

Trent Lythgoe distinguishes between the times when a military writer should walk the path of the noble hedgehog and when he should not.

Ben Duvall finds that Abraham Lincoln and Louis XIV practiced the art of strategy in much the same way.

Don Vandergriff calls out the military incarnation of ‘selective accountability’.

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