Making the Most of The Tactical Notebook
Making the Most of The Tactical Notebook
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In keeping with the motto “everything old is new again,” The Tactical Notebook combines more than six hundred explorations of unsung aspects of recent military history with attempts to make sense of ongoing conflicts, reviews of books and podcasts, and decision-forcing case studies. So, if you are blessed with an abiding interest in “the armies that are, the armies that were, and the armies that might have been,” you have come to the right place.
The following links will take you to pages that will give you a sense of the sort of things published by The Tactical Notebook. (The Gateway is organized by subject. The articles in the archive Archive are listed by date of publication. The About page will tell you a little about the history The Tactical Notebook. The Method in our Madness lays out the philosophy that guides it.
The Tactical Notebook provides readers with content that differs considerably from that found in the many fine books, magazines, and websites dealing with martial matters that are readily available to English-speaking readers. To put things another way, rather than offering yet another look at the battle of Gettysburg, The Tactical Notebook covers such subjects as lessons learned in of the Franco-Turkish War of 1918-1921 and the plans, made in 1941, for the infantry regiments of the post-war German Army.
The Tactical Notebook tells these tales in way that respects your intelligence. Thus, rather than describing all weapons as “devastating” and all fire as “withering,” our authors use clear, understated language to explain the nuts-and-bolts of military operations, the finer points of military organization, and the “roads not taken” by soldiers of the past two centuries or so.
If you subscribe to The Tactical Notebook, which you can do at no cost, each post will appear in your inbox soon after publication. If, however, you prefer to read it without subscribing, you can use either the Gateway or the Archive (or both) to keep abreast of new content.
Running a service like The Tactical Notebook costs money. Thus, while we provide all of our content free of charge, we very much appreciate the people who support our work by taking out paid subscriptions. (The link in this paragraph will take you to a page that explains the privileges, such as full access to the splendid work put out by the Warfare Mastery Institute, enjoyed by our benefactors.)
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