Substacks recommended by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Recommended by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Training Warfighters how to think, decide, and lead under pressure

ShadowBox puts you in contact with John Schmitt, author of 'Warfighting' and the O.G. of Marine Corps tactical decision games.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Modern Wargaming

By JG

A simple substack about wargaming and painting models.

Modern Wargaming uses models to showcase the essential features of armored fighting vehicles, thereby providing a fun way to keep up with 'AFV G-2'.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Defragged History's Substack

History is often told in bits and pieces, in fragments. Defragged History puts all the pieces together in order and tells you the whole story from beginning to end.

Defragged History tells tales of the keystone in the history of modern Europe, the saga of the Dutch Republic.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Missile Matters — with Fabian Hoffmann

By Missile Matters with Fabian Hoffmann

Missile Matters is my personal blog, where I share insights on the latest developments in the nuclear and missile domains in Ukraine and beyond. If Putin decides to nuke us all, you will read about it here first.

the long warred’s Substack

My personal Substack

Long Warred keeps me on my toes.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Rob’s Substack

By Rob Pirie

We are reading through the Harvard Classics 50 volume series! Come join me along the journey and read, listen, watch, and follow along!

Cracking Defence

By Matthew Palmer

Defence and Security, mostly (but not always) from a UK perspective.

Monique Taylor - Forgotten Archives of History

By MoniqueTaylorauthor

The Untold Story of the Glider Pilots of WWII - the mission - the myths - the challenges.

The tales Taylor tells of the American glider troops of World War II complete the Airborne annals found in Ridgeway's Notebook.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Military Philosopher

By Robert A Mosher (he/him)

Applied Historian and Independent Analyst and Scholar of War, Warfare, Peace, and Policy from the moment the raw material for weapons comes out of the ground to the moment we hear Taps or Last Post over the grave of the last veteran.

Bob Mosher reminds me to pay as much attention to the 'why' as the 'what', the 'how', and the 'when'.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

School of War Podcast

Welcome to School of War's Substack. Transcripts of podcast episodes will be released here weekly.

The Whirl of ReOrientation: Escape the Script. Win the War.

By The Whirl Of ReOrientation

Everything depends on Orientation. Rebuild yours now, or be weaponized by someone else’s.

Mark McGrath puts his readers in contact with the thinking of America's greatest strategic thinker, John R. Boyd.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Beyond the Art of War

By Democura

War is often all-encompassing and with few limitations, so should our search for knowledge and understanding be. It is therefore that we should look Beyond the Art of War. For those interested in Philosophy, Science, Morality and the Art of War.

Democura offers insights I can't get anywhere else.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Atletas Tácticos

By Felipe de Atleta Táctico

Consejos Militares para mejorar tu entrenamiento y tu salud. Porque estar en forma no es una opción. Es un deber.

Written in clear, accessible Spanish, Atletas Tácticos gives you an opportunity to both practice your language skills and learn a lot about functional fitness.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Library of Celaeno

By Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno is a cosmic repository of wisdom located deep in the Taurus Constellation.

The Librarian casts a wide net over the realm of culture, thereby catching lots of fascinating fishes.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Contarini’s Attic

Odds and ends about things that interest me, mostly literary and historical, frequently Victorian and Edwardian.

Contarini's Attic presents its readers with well-chosen passages from literary gems of bygone days.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Verbal Notes

A Digital Meeting Place for Practitioners and Students in Diplomacy, Defense, Development and Humanitarian Action.

Verbal Notes helps me find articles I would otherwise miss.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Chalkley’s Thoughts on Military History

By Jay Hambleton

Articles on military personalities, campaigns and engagements.

The articles posted on 'Chalkey's Thoughts' remind me of the pieces I used to read in MHQ magazine.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Ridgway's Notebook

By Tyler Fox

Musings on the history of the airborne in WWII, its principles & developments, triumph's & failures - just the thing occupying Ridgway's notebook.

Tyler Fox is blessed with a rare ability to pull meaning out of tactical details.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Lens of History

I am looking forward to lots of good things from The Lens of History.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Order of Battle

By JustinTime

This substack explores military force structure through engaging visualisations and articles.

JustinTime does delightfully deep dives into the realm of military organization.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Extra Muros

By Bruce I Gudmundsson

Extra Muros explores ways people can obtain the benefits of higher education while remaining "outside the walls" of our dying universities.

Extra Muros celebrates, champions, and informs people engaged in self-directed education.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

On A Side Note

By Sarah

Written prolifically in the margins by a Midnight Writer

Sarah Seifried offers unique insights into the great riddle that is Russia.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Crann na beatha

By Joseph L. Wiess

Stories from the Crucible of Life

If you're in the market for short stories, this is a good place to start your search.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Professional Amateur

By Argo

Dabbling diligently into difficulty.

Argo casts a wide net. In so doing, he widens my perspective, expands my horizons, and gives me lots of interesting things to think about.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Connecting File

Articles on leadership, training, and tactics for the Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance communities.

Run by some of the smartest Marines I know - and I know lots - CXF keeps me in touch with the folks at the tip of the proverbial spear.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Glenn’s Substack

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds

thoughts and observations from Glenn Reynolds.

I've enjoyed Glenn Reynold's work since the days of Instapundit.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

LOCON

By Shady Maples

Life is warfare.

The author at LOCON takes the prize for frank writing about the perils of peacetime soldiering and the art of preparing for something we all hope will never happen.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Becoming Noble

By Johann Kurtz

Build family, resources, and security as the West declines. Get the weekly email to join the new elite.

Becoming Noble aims at nothing less than the creation of an aristocracy worthy of the name. Chivalry lives!

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Fire For Effect

By B. A. Friedman

Strategy and Military History musings from B.A. Friedman

Brett Friedman never fails to tell me something new.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Saxon Cross

By Andrew Henry

“Hwær cwom mearg? Hwær cwom mago?”

If you like Tolkien, you will love the Saxon Cross.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The High Side

By Sean D. Naylor

In-depth national security reporting

Dead Carl and You

By Kiran Pfitzner

Discussions of strategy and contemporary events by a Clausewitz scholar

Marine Corps Compass Points

Broader Thinking, Deeper Understanding, and Better Decisions, for a Stronger Marine Corps

If you are interested in the future of the US Marine Corps or the art of force design, this blog is for you.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Brogues Britannicus

By Samuel Chapman

Architecture, Art, Anglicana, Aesthetics, and Anything else

Take a walk along Hadrian's Wall.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Big Serge Thought

Musings and Ponderings

Big Serge dives deeply into the history of battle, and, in particular, into the Western way of war.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Polymathic Being

By Michael Woudenberg

Polymathic Being is a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays take common topics and explore them from different perspectives and disciplines and, in doing so, come up with unique insights and solutions.

Polymathic Being offers the best insights on the art of management this side of Parkinson's Law.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Anastomosing Dendrite

By Truman Angell

Christ, Counter-Mobility, Classicism, Conservatism, Cornbread, and Catagenesis

Come for the alliteration. Stay for the deep wisdom.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Major Gordon Corrigan's Newsletter

By Gordon Corrigan

Military History and Current Affairs

Major Corrigan guides his readers through the intricate, and frequently paradoxical, world of the armies of the British Empire.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Global Guerrillas

By John Robb

Frameworks for decision-makers at the intersection of war, politics, and technology

Global Guerrillas offers a holistic, highly Boydian view of 'women, horses, power, and war'.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Bazaar of War

By BCD

Warfare, Past and Present

The Bazaar of War challenges the way that I think of the tactics and operations of forces that fight on land.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

History in Story

Stories and thoughts on history. Discussions on culture and current events. New Article every month.

History in Story casts new light on old events, famous and otherwise.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Millennial Woes

A Scottish guy pontificating about the world we are living in, and heading towards.

The empathy and thoughtfulness that make Woes the best interviewer I know provides his writing with powerful poignancy and enviable originality.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Jünger Translation Project

Translating the work of Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger

Translating the work of Ernst Jünger is rarely easy, but always worth the effort.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Coeling Chronicler

By Aurochs

Uncovering the history of the lost kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, the Coeling Dynasty of Northern Britain, and finding the root of the Arthurian legends along the way.

Aurochs, Arthur, and the Anvil helps me escape the temporal parochialism that comes from spending so much time studying the events of the past two centuries.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

THE DISTRO

By The Distro

Decision-making, risk, strategy, leadership, and command. Military themed with universal application.

Austin Caroe offers much of value to those who would lead.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

CDR Salamander

National security, maritime challenges, naval issues with a flavoring of other things I find interesting.

I have long relied on Commander Salamander for insights into all things naval, maritime, and geopolitical.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Holly’s Substack

By Holly MathNerd

math lessons, creativity, deafness, drawing, painting, PTSD, personal reflections

Holly's Substack is helping me regain the great lost love of my youth: mathematics.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Adam Tooze uses eye-catching charts to explain the trends, both obvious and subtle, that are shaping our world.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Tales from the history of innovation.

Age of Invention puts me in touch with the deep background of the history that I study.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson