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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 our work.
The Tactical Notebook provides readers with content that differs considerably from that found in the many books, magazines, and websites already available to English-speaking readers. To put things another way, rather than offering yet another account of the battle of Gettysburg or the landing at Normandy, 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 a 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’, we 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.
If you subscribe to The Tactical Notebook 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 to find articles posted in the two years between 7 November 2022 and 6 November 2024. (You will also receive a concurrent membership in the Warfare Mastery Institute.)
Producing The Tactical Notebook costs me both money and time. Thus, while articles posted before 7 November 2024 are available to all readers, most of those published after that date will reside behind a paywall. (If you are starting out in life, living on a fixed pension, or serving in the armed forces of a country that I like, you can request a complimentary subscription by sending me an e-mail message.)