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Articles about the Schwerpunkt
Finnish and Soviet Three-Inch Field Guns
Finnish and Soviet Light Field Howitzers
Articles about American Military Culture
Articles about the Recruiting Crisis
Articles about Military Education
Articles about Non-Commissioned Officers
Articles about Mobilization in 1914
Articles about the War in Gaza
Articles about the Maneuver Warfare Tradition
Articles about the Balkan Wars
Articles about Automatic Rifles
Articles about Musketen Battalions
Articles about the War in Ukraine
Articles about Tactical Symbols
Making the Most of The Tactical Notebook
Articles about Imaginary Armies
Articles About the Numbering of Units and Formations
Articles about Field Artillery
Articles about Anti-Tank Units and Tactics
Infantry Regiments (1939-1941)
The 16th Infantry Regiment (December 1939)
Lieutenant Colonel Aaro Pajari
Major Patton Shaves Service and Support
Major Patton Designs an Infantry Division
A Little More on the Subject of Comments
Major Patton Builds an Infantry Brigade
Special Unit Kraken (Navigator)
Major Patton Builds a Rifle Company
The 1st Battalion of the 121st Heavy Artillery
Dig We Must (Author's Solution)
The Heavy Artillery of the 21st Army Corps
High Quality Copies of Source Documents
French Artillery at Belleau Wood
The Center of Gravity and Dr. Bruce Gudmundsson
The Automatic Rifles of the 8th Marines
Military Education and Training
Beyond Belleau Wood (Author's Solution)
The Warfighting Skills Program
What I Got Wrong About the War in Gaza
Are You Smarter than a Marine?
The Critical Vulnerability of Hamas
Does Hamas Practice Mission Command?
Armored Reconnaissance Patrols
The Armored Reconnaissance Radio Operator
Thirty Rules for the Leader of an Armored Panzer Grenadier Company
The Armored Forces Newsletter (July 1943)
Making History More "Replicable"
"... is like a man without character"
"An attack without a Schwerpunkt ..."
Ostfront October (Guide to Older Posts)
Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeants Major
Cassandra's Curse (Conclusion)
Cassandra's Curse (Third Problem)
Cassandra's Curse (Fourth Problem)
Cassandra's Case (Fifth Problem)
Corrections to "Cassandra's Curse"
Cassandra's Curse (Second Problem)
Cassandra's Curse (First Problem)
Cassandra's Curse (Order of Battle)
Cassandra's Curse (Background)
Cassandra's Curse (The Protagonist)
Untimely Explosions (Solution to the Fifth Problem)
Untimely Explosions (Fifth Problem)
Untimely Explosions (Fourth Problem)
Untimely Explosions (Third Problem)
America Needs a War on Bad Writing
Untimely Explosions (Second Problem)
Getting Ready for the Next Big Change
Untimely Explosions (The First Problem)
Untimely Explosions (Background)
Reduced-Charge Rounds for French Field Guns
I Say "Lootenant," You Say 'Leftenant'
Which Seventy-Five? (Author's Solution)
How You Can Help the Tactical Notebook
A Better Response to the Recruiting Crisis
Parseval's Quest (Second Solution and Epilogue)
The French Seventy-Five in the Anti-Tank Role (The Scherjeven Device)
The 75mm Guns of American Field Batteries (1917-1919)
Parseval's Quest (First Solution and Second Problem)
75mm Guns of the Marine Infantry Regiment (1942)
Parseval's Quest (First Problem)
Water for the Desert Mounted Corps
Enlistment in the Royal Engineers on the Eve of the First World War
Three Hundred Assaults (Abstract)
Reising Guns, Anti-Tank Rifles, and Specialist Grades
Air-Mechanization, Part 1: An Obsolete Concept Whose Time Has Come?
The Headquarters Companies of Infantry Battalions (1940-1942)
Scharnhorst: The Formative Years
Weapons Company of the Marine Infantry Battalion (28 March 1941)
Wire Cutters for Prussian Pioneers (Model '07)
Marine Rifle Company (28 March 1941)
English-Speaking Pundits and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Hermann Balck on Leading from the Front
French Engineer Companies (1914-1915)
Tactical Notebook has Returned
Regular Operations will Resume on 18 August 2023
US Marines in Nicaragua (1912)
US Marines in the Caribbean (1909-1911)
Field Pioneer Battalions Assigned to Fortresses in the West
From Arras to Zaporizhzhia: "Bite and Hold" Attacks
Operational Command in the South Atlantic
Immobile Pioneer Companies (August 1914 - December 1914)
Field Pioneer Companies Assigned to Fortresses in the East
The Organization and Armament of a Grenadier Escort Platoon (20 October 1944)
Marine Rifle Platoon (28 March 1941)
Rebored Guns of the French Artillery
The Logistical Logic of a Counter-Counter-Offensive
Study of Amphibious Operations at Marine Corps Schools (1920-1933)
The Education of the Enlightened Soldier
Weapons Company of the Marine Infantry Regiment (28 March 1941)
Marine Infantry Regiment (28 March 1941)
The Pioneer Companies of Ersatz Divisions and New Reserve Formations (August-December 1914)
Minor Modifications to the US Army Infantry Regiment (1943-1945)
Welcome to the Tactical Notebook!
The Revolt of the Generals (July 1943)
The Mobilization of Pioneer Companies in August 1914
The History of England Podcast
The History of England Podcast
Ways to Read the Tactical Notebook
The Shape of the Study of History
Fortress Pioneer Regiments in August and September of 1914
Headquarters and Service Companies of the Infantry Regiment (April 1942)
Academic Fraud: The Case of Francesca Gino
The Serbian Army of 1912 (The Howitzer Regiment)
The Cannon Company of the US Army Infantry Regiment (April 1942)
The Anti-Tank Company of the US Army Infantry Regiment (April 1942)
The US Army Infantry Battalion of April 1942
Trucks and Radios of the US Army (1941-1945)
Critique (Part III: The Russo-Japanese War)
Critique (Part II: The Franco-Prussian War)
The US Army at the Start of World War II
The Serbian Army of 1912 (Field and Mountain Artillery)
The Serbian Army of 1912 (Infantry & Cavalry)
Ernst Jünger on the Infantry Training Manual of 1922 (Part II)
The Mine Fields of Zaporizhzhia
Ernst Jünger on the Infantry Training Manual of 1922 (Part I)
The Fleet Marine Force (1936-1938)
Ernst Jünger on the Speed of Attacks (Part III)
Ernst Jünger on the Speed of Attacks (Part II)
The Fleet Marine Force in 1935
The Founding of the Fleet Marine Force
Ernst Jünger on the Speed of Attacks (Part I)
Tactics of the Auto-Rifle Squad
The Anti-Tank Company of the US Army Infantry Regiment (October 1940)
The US Army Weapons Company of 1940
Assault Guns in a Tank Battalion
The Greek Army of 1913 (Plans for Expansion)
The Greek Army of 1912 (Divisions)
The Greek Army of 1912 (The School of the Nation)
The deployment plan of Hermann von Staabs
Supplying the Infantry Regiment of 1938
Gallipoli in 1913 (Ottoman Cavalry)
Gallipoli in 1913 (Other Ottoman Divisions)
Gallipoli in 1913 (Standard Ottoman Divisions)
The Organizational Reforms of December 1938
The US Army Plan for All-Electric Vehicles
New Name, New Sponsor, New Logo
The Azov Battalions of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigades
The Hessians (Hesse-Darmstadt)
Marine Infantry Regiments (1919-1932)
Nicaragua, China, and Hawaii (1922-1932)
The Marines Change Direction (1919-1932)
Cavalry of Active Infantry Divisions
The "Infantry Artillery" Family of 1923
75mm Rifled Mortars (1922-1932)
Experimental Battalions (1929-1930)
Experimental Machine Gun Companies (1929)
Staff, Signals, and Transportation
A New Citizen Army (1919-1920)
Postwar Assessment (1920-1932)
Service outside of France (1917-1923)
The American Expeditionary Forces (Part III)
The American Expeditionary Forces (Part II)
The American Expeditionary Forces (Part I)
Battalion: An Organizational Study of the United States Infantry
German Infantry Divisions (IV)
German Infantry Divisions (III)
The Transformation of the Marine Corps (1899-1916)
American Infantry Battalions (1914-1917)
American Machine Guns 1904-1914
The Organization of the US Army (1898-1905)
Battalion: An Organizational Study of the United States Infantry
The Heavy Artillery Brigades of 1915
Lessons Learned at Dieppe (IV)
German Infantry Divisions (II)
Lessons Learned at Dieppe (III)
Lessons Learned at Dieppe (II)
Field Artillery Units of Quick Divisions
Anti-Tank Battalions of Quick Divisions
Infantry Units of Quick Divisions
Reconnaissance Units of Quick Divisions
Mechanized Cavalry of the Interwar Period
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Epilogue)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Conclusion)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Problem VI)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Problem V)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Problem IV)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Problem III)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Problem II)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Historical Outcome I)
A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Problem I)
More on the Method in our Madness
Desertion in the US Army (III)
The "Artillery Battle Battalion" of the 18th Artillery Division
Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up
Honoring the Document Digitizers
Winston Churchill's PowerPoint Slide
British Army Corps (1914-1915) (V)
British Army Corps (1914-1915) (IV)
Anton Neidhardt von Gneisenau (II)
Anton Neidhardt von Gneisenau (I)
British Army Corps (1914-1915) (IV)
The Mobilization of the French Army in 1914
The 18th Artillery Division (II)
The 18th Artillery Division (I)
British Army Corps (1907-1914)
The Armament of Escort Batteries (1918)
British Army Corps (1902-1907)
The Art of Giving Orders (1913)
A Soviet Motorized-Mechanized Brigade (1943)
British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915) (VII)
The Lost Writings of William Slim
British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915)(VI)
When the enemy has a lot more artillery ammunition ...
British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915) (V)
French Drab Uniforms (1903-1913)
Heavy Artillery of the Reichsheer
British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915) (IV)
Field Artillery of the Reichsheer
The 1st Polish Division in 1943
British Infantry Divisions 1914-1915 (III)
Counting Specialized Assault Units
If you have a Substack of your own
British Infantry Divisions 1914-1915 (II)
The Expansion of the Reichsheer
British Infantry Divisions 1914-1915 (I)
French Reserve Divisions (1914)
AEF Machine Gun Battalions (1917-1918)
Maneuver Warfare as a Tradition
The Moral Effects of Artillery Fire
How Best to Handle Longer Articles
Balck on Field Artillery (III)
Attachments to the 213th Division
A History of Europe, Key Battles
213th Infantry Division (May 1918)
History of the Second World War
Jäger and MG Units of Cavalry Divisions
Artillery for the Levant (1925)
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (VIII)
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (VII)
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part VI)
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part V)
Raid, Parade, or Bungled Blitz?
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part IV)
Balck on Field Artillery (III)
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part III)
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (II)
Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (I)
Infantry Anti-Tank Guns of the 16th Infantry Division
The Uhle-Wettler Infantry Battalion (Part II)
The Paradox of the Five Paragraph Order
Artillery of the 16th Infantry Division
The French Infantry Company of 1914
The Uhle-Wettler Infantry Battalion (Part I)
Lieutenant Clausewitz (Problem)
Lieutenant Clausewitz (Historical Solution)
Lieutenant von Clausewitz (Background)
Sergeant Arent (Historical Solution 2)
Sergeant Arent (Historical Solution 1)
The Individual Replacement System in 1944
How to Engage Decision-Forcing Cases
Schneider-Canet Field Gun (Model 1895)
Artillery in the Boer War (Part III)
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Artillery in the Boer War (Part II)
Artillery in the Boer War (Part I)
Saving American Horse-Drawn Artillery
German Troops in China (Part VI)
The Employment of Foot Artillery
German Troops in China in 1900 (Part V)
Foot Artillery with Formations
Musketen Battalions (Part III)
German Field Artillery in 1914
German Troops in China (Part IV)
The German Peacetime Army of 1941
German Troops in China (Part III)
German Troops in China (Part II)
German Troops in China (Part I)