The Tactical Notebook | Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

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“…. we must continue the whirl of reorientation…. and adapt to an unfolding, evolving reality that remains uncertain, ever- changing, unpredictable.” - John Boyd, “Conceptual Spiral.”

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

- 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.

Contarini’s Attic

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

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

- 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. You can also follow my research diary on the reform of the Armed forces of Ukraine between 2014 and 2022

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

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Extra Muros

By Bruce I Gudmundsson

Extra Muros explores ways for people to 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

The ISIS Reader

By Craig Whiteside

This blog serves as our platform to discuss all issues related to the continuing evolution of the Islamic State movement, with ties to our 2020 Hurst/Oxford book of primary sources and commentary.

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 Wiess

Stories from the Crucible of Life

The Workbox

By Jake

Theology at Work

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.

Logan House Publishing

By J.R.

Logan House Publishin. The best fly-by-night self-publishing of Hero and Adventure Fiction. If you want to read a story and forget for a while come to The World of 'We Were Heroes'. Pledge for paid content.

Glenn’s Substack

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds

thoughts and observations from Glenn Reynolds.

As a longtime fan of Instapundit, I am delighted to welcome Glenn Reynolds to the "army of Davids" here on Substack.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Powder Horn

By Shady Maples

Life is warfare.

The Powder Horn 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 power, resources, family, and security as the West declines. Get the weekly email to join the new elite.

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

Fighting the Long Defeat

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

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Peeking Around the Corner

By Samantha Gluck

Do you see what I see?

The Buildout

By Ed Moltzen

The Buildout provides daily coverage of America's transition to Electric Vehicles and the buildout of infrastructure, manufacturing, and technology to support it.

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

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

Counterintuitive insights from technology, innovation, philosophy, psychology, and more.

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

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Anastomosing Dendrite

By Harry Angell

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

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

The War Room

By Dr Robert Lyman

Ideas and commentary on historical matters and subjects associated with modern international relations, sometimes associated with my writing, and sometimes not!

Delightfully eclectic, Robert Lyman's blog explores many neglected corners of the military history of the British Empire

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Global Guerrillas

By John Robb

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

The Bazaar of War

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 GenX/Millennial 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

Aurochs, Arthur, and the Anvil

Articles discussing Sub-Roman Britain, or The Brythonic Heroic Age as I call it, hunting down the origins of Arthurian Tropes, as well as blacksmithing, and maybe once and a while cryptids, and some relevant Archaeology.

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

Igor’s Newsletter

By Igor Chudov

Independent thoughts

Igor Chudov's blog is the first Substack that I visit when looking for information related to public health.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Letters from Fiddler's Greene

By Dave Greene

Dissident discourse in a post-modern age

Angela Nagle's Newsletter

A heterodox journal of culture, ideas and political economy

Angela Nagle knows what I want to know long before I know what I want to know.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

eugyppius: a plague chronicle

We are witnessing an unprecedented, comprehensive failure of policy, medicine and science. The world will never be the same.

So much more than the name suggests, this blog provides a unique perspective on the times in which we live.

- 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

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.

The Hard Fork by Marvin Liao

Silicon Valley Meets the World. Strong Opinions & Perspective on Personal Development, Self Sovereignty, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, The Technology & Media Biz.

The Hard Fork is my window into the world of high technology.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson