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Lieutenant Colonel Aaro Pajari

The Warfare Mastery Institute

Dive Bombers

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Major Patton Shaves Service and Support

Torpedo Bombers

Welcome Aboard!

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

Monthly Retrospective

The Pincer Effect

Flooding the Tunnels of Gaza

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 Warfare Mastery Institute

Dig We Must (Problem)

The Center of Gravity and Dr. Bruce Gudmundsson

The Automatic Rifles of the 8th Marines

Military Education and Training

Turkey Tactics

Beyond Belleau Wood (Author's Solution)

Beyond Belleau Wood (Problem)

The Warfighting Skills Program

What I Got Wrong About the War in Gaza

Are You Smarter than a Marine?

Ooh-Rah November 2023

Assault and Battery VI

Assault and Battery VII

Bite and Hold at Beit Hanoun?

Assault and Battery V

Upcoming Attractions

Assault and Battery IV

Assault and Battery III

The Critical Vulnerability of Hamas

Amphibious Operations

Assault and Battery II

Assault and Battery I

Does Hamas Practice Mission Command?

Armored Reconnaissance Patrols

Non-Commissioned Officers

The Armored Reconnaissance Radio Operator

Thirty Rules for the Leader of an Armored Panzer Grenadier Company

The Tiger Tank

Classic Light Infantry

The Employment of Tanks

Tanks: The Basics

The Armored Forces Newsletter (July 1943)

Making History More "Replicable"

Corrections

"... is like a man without character"

"An attack without a Schwerpunkt ..."

Ostfront October (Guide to Older Posts)

Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeants Major

American 75s of the Jazz Age

The Plan for October 2023

Yet Another Apology

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 (General Situation)

Cassandra's Curse (The Protagonist)

Untimely Explosions (Solution to the Fifth Problem)

Everything Old is New Again

Untimely Explosions (Fifth Problem)

Ernst Jünger

The Other Seventy-Fives

The Art of Giving Orders

October Surprise

Podcast Appearances

Untimely Explosions (Fourth Problem)

Untimely Explosions (Third Problem)

Vitaï Lampeda 2030

America Needs a War on Bad Writing

Untimely Explosions (Second Problem)

Getting Ready for the Next Big Change

Farewell to College Days

Untimely Explosions (The First Problem)

The Dollar Store War

Untimely Explosions (Background)

Reduced-Charge Rounds for French Field Guns

I Say "Lootenant," You Say 'Leftenant'

Plaquettes Malandrin

Which Seventy-Five? (Author's Solution)

Which Seventy-Five?

How You Can Help the Tactical Notebook

A Better Response to the Recruiting Crisis

Chasing Shiny Objects

Military Education

Heavy Field Howitzers

Parseval's Quest (Second Solution and Epilogue)

Soixante-Quinze September

Scherjeven Device (French 75 as Anti-Tank Gun)

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)

Where are the Fighter Drones?

The Thirty-Year Perspective

Our Policy on Comments

Parseval's Quest (First Problem)

Water for the Desert Mounted Corps

Parseval's Quest (Background)

Enlistment in the Royal Engineers on the Eve of the First World War

Three Hundred Assaults (VI)

Three Hundred Assaults (V)

Three Hundred Assaults (IV)

Three Hundred Assaults (III)

Three Hundred Assaults (II)

Three Hundred Assaults (I)

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)

Ukraine: Lessons for Leaders

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

Rules for Military Writing

Regular Operations will Resume on 18 August 2023

US Marines in Nicaragua (1912)

US Marines in the Caribbean (1909-1911)

Lunch with John Boyd

Field Pioneer Battalions Assigned to Fortresses in the West

Tricky Terms of Art

From Arras to Zaporizhzhia: "Bite and Hold" Attacks

Study Tips from 1782

Operational Command in the South Atlantic

Immobile Pioneer Companies (August 1914 - December 1914)

Field Pioneer Companies Assigned to Fortresses in the East

The Gateway

History Trumps Doctrine

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

Numbers and Names

Study of Amphibious Operations at Marine Corps Schools (1920-1933)

Starve, Stretch, and Strike

The Education of the Enlightened Soldier

Weapons Company of the Marine Infantry Regiment (28 March 1941)

H&S Company of the 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!

Balkan Wars

Tanks

The Attacks of June 2023

Mortars

Automatic Rifles

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

The Reforms of General McNair

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)

The Hornet (Part V)

Critique (Part III: The Russo-Japanese War)

Critique (Part II: The Franco-Prussian War)

The Caracole

The US Army at the Start of World War II

Critique (Part I)

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)

Regiments and Radios (1940)

The End of History

Tactics of the Auto-Rifle Squad

The Anti-Tank Company of the US Army Infantry Regiment (October 1940)

The Unsung Assault Gun

The US Army Weapons Company of 1940

An Old Map of Bakhmut

Assault Gun Escort Company

Independent Armored Brigades

Assault Guns as Tank Hunters

RUSI on Russian Tactics

Five Weddings and a Funeral

Stepping Back ... Slowly

A Better Analogy?

Assault Guns in a Tank Battalion

Assault Gun Tactics

Assault Gun Tactics

The Greek Army of 1913 (Plans for Expansion)

The Rifle Companies of 1940

The Zhukov Affair (2019-2022)

The Greek Army of 1912 (Divisions)

Assault on Zapo

The Greek Army of 1912 (The School of the Nation)

Field Guns in the Balkan Wars

The Way of the Sword

What if Britain Goes to War?

Gray Tide in the East

The Fighting in the West

The Fighting in the East

Deployment Plan von Staabs

Field Guns in the Balkan Wars

Supplying the Infantry Regiment of 1938

Gallipoli in 1913 (Ottoman Cavalry)

Gallipoli in 1913 (Other Ottoman Divisions)

Introducing "Extra Muros"

Gallipoli in 1913 (Overview)

Gallipoli in 1913 (Standard Ottoman Divisions)

The Folly of the Big Push

The Organizational Reforms of December 1938

The Special Weapons Battalion

East Prussia

The US Army Plan for All-Electric Vehicles

Building T Battery (III)

New Name, New Sponsor, New Logo

The Hessians (Hesse-Nassau)

The Browning Automatic Rifle

The Azov Battalions of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade

The Hessians (Hesse-Darmstadt)

Operations (1821-1976)

The Army of Württemberg

The Saxon Army

Obstacle Clearance Under Fire

Building T Battery (II)

Reserve Cavalry Regiments

Marine Infantry Regiments (1919-1932)

Nicaragua, China, and Hawaii (1922-1932)

The Marines Change Direction (1919-1932)

Cavalry of Active Infantry Divisions

Pétain Explains Attrition

The "Infantry Artillery" Family of 1923

The Grand Duchy of Baden

The Landing at Azovske

The Bavarian III Army Corps

Advanced Land Warfare

The Bavarian II Army Corps

Notes is so new

Tinkering at the Front

The Bavarian I Army Corps

75mm Rifled Mortars (1922-1932)

Doubling

New Weapons (1931-1939)

An Ideal Regiment (1930)

Experimental Battalions (1929-1930)

Raising Mixed Ersatz Brigades

Experimental Machine Gun Companies (1929)

The Road to Habbaniya (I)

Ersatz Divisions

Motorization at Fort Eustis

Serialization

Experimental Companies

Großdeutschland (VI)

Hollow Regiments (1920-1932)

Staff, Signals, and Transportation

Battle of the Boards

A New Infantry Regiment

A New Citizen Army (1919-1920)

Postwar Assessment (1920-1932)

German Infantry Divisions (V)

AFV G-2

Patton auf Deutsch

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)

Kartoffelkrieg 2.0

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)

Großdeutschland 1942 (V)

The Spanish-American War

French Trench Mortars (V)

Battalion: An Organizational Study of the United States Infantry

Author's Preface

The Big Push

Großdeutschland 1942 (IV)

Großdeutschland 1942 (III)

Großdeutschland 1942 (II)

The Hornet (IV)

Großdeutschland 1942 (I)

The Hornet (III)

MCDP-4 Logistics

Indirect Fire from a Tank

Lessons Learned at Dieppe (V)

The Heavy Artillery Brigades of 1915

Lessons Learned at Dieppe (IV)

German Infantry Divisions (II)

Lessons Learned at Dieppe (III)

The Hornet (II)

Lessons Learned at Dieppe (II)

Lessons Learned at Dieppe (I)

The Hornet (I)

Slimming Down Großdeutschland

Platoon (Conclusion)

Platoon (Problem XI)

Platoon (Problem X)

Platoon (Problem IX)

Platoon (Problem VI)

Platoon (Problem VII)

Platoon (Problem VIII)

Platoon (Problem III)

Platoon (Problem IV)

Platoon (Problem V)

Platoon (Problem II)

Platoon (Problem I)

Field Artillery Units of Quick Divisions

Anti-Tank Battalions of Quick Divisions

Platoon (Background)

Infantry Units of Quick Divisions

Tank Units of Quick Divisions

Reconnaissance Units of Quick Divisions

Mechanized Cavalry of the Interwar Period

How to Teach Planning ...

The Fire Team (1927-1955)

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)

Czechoslovak Infantry in 1923

A Skirmish in Nicaragua (Problem I)

More on the Method in My Madness

The Problem with Prediction

Brigade Ersatz Battalions

From 1983 to 2023

French Trench Mortars (IV)

French Trench Mortars (III)

German Infantry Divisions (I)

Desertion in the US Army (III)

Desertion in the US Army (II)

The "Artillery Battle Battalion" of the 18th Artillery Division

18th Artillery Division (III)

Truppenführung (1933)

Desertion in the US Army (I)

Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up

Honoring the Document Digitizers

British Army Corps in 1915

Winston Churchill's PowerPoint Slide

The Interwar Period

British Army Corps (1914-1915) (V)

British Army Corps (1914-1915) (IV)

The Rhythm of our Posts

Anton Neidhardt von Gneisenau (II)

Anton Neidhardt von Gneisenau (I)

More on Indirect Fire

The Stabsgefreiter

Kudos to Commander Salamander

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 in 1914

British Army Maneuvers 1912

This one has the link ...

Bookmarking The Tactical Notebook

British Army Corps (1907-1914)

The Armament of Escort Batteries (1918)

British Army Corps (1902-1907)

The Prussian Army of 1858

The Art of Giving Orders (1913)

A Soviet Motorized-Mechanized Brigade (1943)

French Trench Mortars (II)

Horsefeathers

Welcome to the Case Method

British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915) (VII)

The Lost Writings of William Slim

British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915)(VI)

The German Army of 1887 (III)

Military Monoculture

French Trench Mortars (I)

Trading Places (Solutions)

Combat Orders (IV)

Combat Orders (III)

Combat Orders (II)

Combat Orders (I)

The German Army in 1887 (II)

The Critique of Solutions

Heavy Field Howitzers (XIII)

When the enemy has a lot more artillery ammunition ...

British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915) (V)

The German Army in 1887 (I)

Cognitive Fidelity

Trading Places

French Drab Uniforms (1903-1913)

German Use of Lewis Guns (1917)

Heavy Artillery of the Reichsheer

British Infantry Divisions (1914-1915) (IV)

Field Artillery of the Reichsheer

Historical Map Problems

The 1st Polish Division in 1943

British Infantry Divisions 1914-1915 (III)

Tanks in an Artillery War

Counting Specialized Assault Units

If you have a Substack of your own

British Infantry Divisions 1914-1915 (II)

A Plan for Expanding the Reichsheer

British Infantry Divisions 1914-1915 (I)

The Great Reframing of 1912

Martin Van Creveld

French Reserve Divisions (1914)

AEF Machine Gun Battalions (1917-1918)

French Formations (1874-1914)

Maneuver Warfare as a Tradition

XIV Reserve Corps in 1916

Ultima ratio ...

The Moral Effects of Artillery Fire

Making Sense of Clausewitz

How We Handle Links

The New Tank Tactics

Heavy Field Howitzers (XII)

Heavy Field Howitzers (XI)

Making Sense of It All

William Balck on Field Artillery (V)

How Best to Handle Longer Articles

William Balck on Field Artillery (IV)

William Balck on Field Artillery (III)

Reviews

Armies in Retreat

Attachments to the 213th Division

A History of Europe, Key Battles

213th Infantry Division (May 1918)

History of the Second World War

Regional Defense Unit "Azov"

The Many Meanings of Ersatz

Jäger and MG Units of Cavalry Divisions

Coup d'Oeil

Heavy Field Howitzers (X)

Heavy Field Howitzers (IX)

Heavy Mortars in Normandy

Artillery for the Levant (1925)

90mm de Bange Mortars

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (VIII)

Building a Big Battalion

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (VII)

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part VI)

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part V)

Tanks for the Memory

Raid, Parade, or Bungled Blitz?

Military Innovation

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part IV)

The 9 cm Mortar of 1880

Sound Ranging 2023

William Balck on Field Artillery (III)

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (Part III)

William Balck on Field Artillery (II)

William Balck on Field Artillery (I)

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (II)

The Method in My Madness

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (I)

Rommel's Lost Book

Free Kriegsspiel

Turning Board Games into TDGs

Infantry Anti-Tank Guns of the 16th Infantry Division

Small Unit Case Studies

Tactical Dreams

Custom Symbols

Artillery

Different Strokes

Imaginary Armies

The Uhle-Wettler Infantry Battalion (II)

The Mind of the Squad Leader

The Paradox of the Five Paragraph Order

NATO Symbols

Learning from the Germans

1939-1945

Artillery of the 16th Infantry Division

Warfighting

Tactical Symbols

Depicting Infantry Guns

Ukraine

Maneuver

World War I

Decision Games

The French Infantry Company of 1914

Conversations with Hermann Balck

Depicting Anti-Tank Guns

The Uhle-Wettler Infantry Battalion (I)

Lieutenant Clausewitz (Problem)

Depicting Mortars

Lieutenant Clausewitz (Historical Solution)

Lieutenant von Clausewitz (Background)

Teaching 'Sergeant Arent'

Sergeant Arent (Historical Solution 2)

Sergeant Arent (Problem 2)

Depicting Minenwerfer

Wargaming a Chinese Invasion

Sergeant Arent (Historical Solution 1)

Sergeant Arent (Problem 1)

Sergeant Arendt (Background)

Distribution of 81mm Mortars

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)

Style and Substance

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152mm Howitzers

Artillery in the Boer War (Part II)

Marne or Mailly?

The Canon

Artillery in the Boer War (Part I)

Saving American Horse-Drawn Artillery

Red versus Blue

Counter Concentration

Belgian Machine Gun Dogs

Operational Reconnaissance

Mass

The Worthy House

A History of Italy

Intermarium 2.0

Horse Artillery

Sound and Flash

Counter-Battery Fire

German Troops in China (Part VI)

History of the Germans

The Employment of Foot Artillery

The Forest of Luchy

German Troops in China in 1900 (Part V)

Thugs and Miracles

Battles and Campaigns

Foot Artillery with Formations

Danish Madsen Gun Platoons

Machiavelli and Friends

Describing Artillery Pieces

German Field Artillery in 1914

German Troops in China (Part IV)

Field and Foot

The Hessian Life Guards

The German Peacetime Army of 1941

German Troops in China (Part III)

The Pincer Effect

Leading Despite Radio Jamming

Long and Short!

Raising the Musketen Battalions

German Troops in China (Part II)

Outer Walls

The Pincer Effect (Part IV)

The Pincer Effect (Part III)

German Troops in China (Part I)

The Pincer Effect (Part II)

The French Peacetime Army 1914-1918 (Part III)

Hasty Inner Walls

A Fortress Anti-Tank Company