Gentle Readers,
In composing, or choosing, materials to publish in The Tactical Notebook, I look for things that you cannot easily find elsewhere. At the same time, I do whatever I can to give you (and, by extension, my competitors) access to the sources that discovered. To put things another way, I am slowly working myself out of a job.
That said, many years will pass before The Tactical Notebook runs out of tales to tell. For one thing, the bookshelves here at the Old Headquarters Building groan under the weight of a full gross of three-ring binders, each of which contains photocopies of documents, articles, and books that, over the course of the past four decades, I found in various libraries and archives. For another, a lot of good people around the world are working hard to digitize items of that ilk, thereby preserving the likes of you and me from long bus rides, endless hours of slaving over a hot photocopier, and the fish-and-chips special at the archive cafeteria.
In doing this, I have found it impossible to predict the appeal of any given article. Things I post ‘on a wing and a prayer’ sometime prove popular. At the same time, several surefire winners turned out to be damp squibs. (Oh for the days when the mere mention of ‘Rommel’ or ‘Patton’ worked magic.) Thus, while I try to publish lots of American content in July and US Marine Corps stories in November, the appearance of a particular piece in the pages of The Tactical Notebook owes more to serendipity than to any scheme, plan, or program.
With these things in mind, I wish you all happy reading!
Bruce
“That said, many years will pass before The Tactical Notebook runs out of tales to tell.” 😎
Fear not Scholar Warrior, we write tales daily.
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