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Fighting and Writing

Marine Infantry Regiment (28 March 1941) (Recast)

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The HQ Company of the Marine Infantry Battalion (1943)

The Marine Infantry Battalion Weapons Company of 1943

The Marine Rifle Company of 1943

Should You Study the Korean War?

Small Unit Case Studies [Encore]

Milstack Saturday (9 November 2024)

Companions

Drill in New Plymouth (1620-1627)

Two Apologies

Professional Reading

The Canon [Encore]

A French View of Kriegspiel (IV)

A French View of Kriegspiel (III)

Milstack Saturday (2 November 2024)

Complimentary Paid Subscriptions

A French View of Kriegspiel (II)

A French View of Kriegspiel (I)

It's Time to Pay the Fiddler

MilStack Monthly (October 2024)

Milstack Saturday (26 October 2024)

Kriegspiel on the Eve of War

Get Rommel

How the Howitzer Got its Tail

Milstack Saturday (19 October 2024)

The Division Command Post (Ib)

The Division Command Post (Ic)

The Division Command Post (Ia)

Return of the Russian Infantry Gun?

Evolution of the Staff of a German Infantry Division

Articles about German General Staffs

Milstack Saturday (12 October 2024)

Loaded for Goose

Canadian Armored Cars 1914-1916

We, Robot

Milstack Saturday (5 October 2024)

French Armored Cars 1914-1915

Ordonnanz Officers on the Division Staff

Saved Rounds (29 September 2024)

MilStack Monthly (September 2024)

Milstack Saturday (28 September 2024)

Tell Me 'Cuando, Cuando, Cuando'

The Supply Section of the Staff of an Ideal Infantry Division

Armored Cars in 1914

Milstack Saturday (21 September 2024)

The Higher Adjudantur in 1894

The Adjudant of an Infantry Division

The Senior Staff Officers of a Division

'Delaying Resistance' in Ukraine

The Small Display Feature on Substack

The Commanding General

Milstack Saturday (14 September 2024)

German Anti-Tank Units

Delaying Resistance (1926)

Battalions of Dual-Purpose 20mm Guns

Leadership in the German Army

MilStack Monthly (August 2024)

MilStack Saturday (7 September 2024)

Organization of the German Army (1938)

Joining the German General Staff

Instruction at the Kriegsakademie

A Memoir of 4th Generation Warfare

MilStack Saturday (31 August 2024)

Musical Stormtroopers

The Blue Brunswickers (Historical Solution)

The Blue Brunswickers (The Problem)

The Blue Brunswickers (Background)

The Warfare Mastery Institute

MilStack Saturday (24 August 2024)

Three General Staffs

Tinkering at the Front (Encore)

Bookmarking The Tactical Notebook

Joining the Prussian General Staff

MilStack Saturday (17 August 2024)

The Incursion West of Kursk

August of 2022

Who Will Make the Drones?

Misdirected Missives

MilStack Saturday (10 August 2024)

The General Education of Military Leaders (Encore)

Thirty-Seconds Over Isfahan

MilStack Saturday (3 Aug 2024) (Links Fixed)

MilStack Saturday (3 August 2024)

A Plan for Expanding the Reichsheer

Unlearning to Write

Unity of Doctrine

William and Hermann Balck

Our Coverage of Ongoing Conflicts

July of 2022

Five Weddings and a Funeral

The Zhukov Affair (2019-2022)

New Name, New Sponsor, New Logo

Our Policy on Comments (Encore)

The Azov Battalions of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade

Regional Defense Unit "Azov"

The Revival of Older Series

Saints and Strangers

152mm Howitzers

Thank You

The Artillery School in Berlin (VI)

The Artillery School in Berlin (V)

The Artillery School in Berlin (IV)

The Artillery School in Berlin (III)

The Artillery School in Berlin (II)

The Artillery School in Berlin (I)

German Influence in the US Army

Tactical Problems

The Paradox of the Five Paragraph Order (Encore)

Naming the Drone Meisters

Infantry Squads & Platoons

The French Infantry Company of 1914

Portable Armored Shields

The Origin of the Term "Stosstrupp"

Regimental Histories on Line

The German Peacetime Army of 1941

The Second "Assault Cannon" of Assault Battalion Rohr

The Walls of Florence

A Different Kind of War Game

William F. Mullen

More About Mortars

French Mobile Heavy Artillery

Anti-Tank Weapons, Units, & Techniques

Bracketing

The American Revolution

Did this Photo Fool Ernst Jünger?

Photographic Fakery

Artillery for the Levant (1925)

Building a Big Battalion

Madsen Gun Squads & Platoons

The Hessian Life Guards

The Source of German Madsen Guns

German Use of Lewis Guns (1917)

The Great 'What If' of 1914

Machine Gun Platoons and Companies

The US Army "System of Mobile Artillery"

Non-Commissioned Officers of the German Empire

Can Tactics be Taught?

Numbering Territorial Infantry Battalions (1914-1918)

Numbering British Infantry Battalions (1907-1914)

The Many Meanings of Ersatz

Spot the Unteroffizier

Marne or Mailly?

Platoons of a Minenwerfer Company

Headquarters of a Minenwerfer Company

Great Ordinances

Why Marines Loved Jeeps

Harmonizing Heavy Weapons

Over Open Sights

Attack upon a Rifle Platoon

Attack upon a Machine Gun Platoon

Trench Mortars of the Republic

The Forest of Luchy

Send in the Jeeps (1941-1943)

How I Make Maps

AFV G-2

Shore Huggers and Horse Marines

Growth of the Marine Infantry Regiment (March 1941-April 1943)

The Marine Infantry Regiment (28 March 1941)

Three Infantry Regiments (1935-1945)

Depicting Infantry Guns

Motorization at Fort Eustis

Higher Truppenführung

How to Buy Books

Books about 'Truppenführung'

Wallach on Clausewitz

Battalion: An Organizational Study of United States Infantry

Sports In, Corporals Out (1943-1944)

The US Army (1939-1945)

Moral Response to Mental Maneuver

Moral Response to Mental Maneuver

The Word 'Truppenführung'

Find the Hidden Mortars

An Ideal Regiment (1930)

The US Marine Corps (1940-1945)

The US Marine Corps (1898-1939)

The US Army (1898-1939)

Marines in the AEF (1917-1919)

Monsieur Macron's Lament

French Field Guns in German Service

Correction of a Grievous Error

Performance of Reduced-Charge Rounds

A Sawed-Off 75

Picturing the Regulars

A Substacker's Guide to the Graphixy

The Four-Company Battalion (Conclusion)

Recruits, Bandsmen, and Drummers

Battalion Organization (Series)

The Big Company at Work

Establishments

The Headquarter Section

Two Books about the British Army

Progressive Training

The Non-Commissioned Officer

The Battalion in War

The British Infantry Battalion of 1912

News and Views from the Old Headquarters

Mention of Machine Guns

Articles About Machine Guns

The Slow Rise of the Machine Gun

Slow Wars Spoil the Soldier

The Lost Battalion

Troupe and Trouper, Trooper and Troop

Schneider Seventy-Fives in Serbia

Metal Matters

Articles about Erwin Rommel

Two Cases of Combat Refusal

Déjà Vu in Ukraine?

Articles about Attrition

Operations on a Broad Front

Reconnaissance Pull

Foreign Military Studies (Redux)

Proportionality

Annihilation in Gaza

Forget Me Not

Articles about Military Education

Articles by, or about, Ernst Jünger

French Trench Mortars (VI)

Gallows Hill

Articles about Verdun

The Double-Platoon Proposal of 1918

Articles about Rifle Companies

A Rifle Company of the Baltic Landeswehr

French Trench Mortars (V)

Articles about French Trench Mortars

Making the Most of Decision Games

Solutions to Decision Games

Anti-Tank Guns of the 9th Infantry Division

Anti-Tank Aces (May 1943) (Part II)

Anti-Tank Aces (May 1943)

About Our Illustrations

An Ideal Battle from 1944

Apologies and Intentions

The Curious Carriage Takes the Field

Articles about the Falklands War

Articles about Erich von Manstein

Articles about Amphibious Operations

Articles about Classic Light Infantry

Funeral Details (Part III)

1st Company, 10th Detached Battalion

Funeral Details (Part II)

Funeral Details

The Curious Carriage Saves a Bundle

Articles about Reconnaissance

The Defeat of the Luftwaffe

The Canteen

Pajari Takes Command

Articles about the Boer War (1899-1902)

Complementing the Curious Carriages

Articles about the Design of Ordnance

Articles about Elite Assault Units

The Curious Carriage of Lieutenant Colonel* Mourcet

Articles about Infantry Guns and Mountain Guns

The Curious Carriage of Major Mourcet

The Curious Carriage of Captain Mourcet

Heavy Field Howitzers 1914-1915 (III)

Articles about Heavy Field Howitzers

Directed Telescope

Sub-Machine Gun Platoons

Articles about Innovation

Articles about George S. Patton

Pliant Purposes

Mountain, Infantry, and Regimental Guns

Articles about the Winter War (1939-1940)

Looking Back at 2023

Articles about Drones