The Tactical Notebook
Bruce Ivar GudmundssonThe Tactical Notebook explores the armies that are, the armies that were, and the armies that might have been.
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CARList Complications
A few days ago, a librarian from the Combined Arms Research Library warned me of an upcoming change to the IT infrastructure of that institution. This, he kindly explained, would soon send the sources on the far side of many of our links to...
Machine Gun Man (II)
In the autumn of 1916, Gustav Ponath commanded the machine gun company of Sturmtruppe Picht, a motor-mounted, reinforced battalion sent out to seize an important defile in the Transylvanian Alps. Early in 1933, he wrote an article about thi...
Machine Gun Man (I)
Gustav Ponath (on the far right) with his family
On 27 February 1898, Karl Albert Gustav Ponath, a pastor serving a rural community in the Prussian province of Pommerania, welcomed his third son into the world. Ten years later, that son, G...
Solutions to Short Problem 13
(US National Archives)
The following post provides the author’s solutions to one of the sixteen short problems published in the very first (1930-1931) issue of the Infantry School Mailing List.
If you have yet to read, or, better yet, wor...
Milstack Saturday
Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour Picket Guards (1891) (Brooklyn Museum)
Milstack Saturday showcases the best articles I read on Substack in the past seven days.
Over at Modern Warfare, JG provides a précis of the drone war fought in Ukrain...
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I write 'The Tactical Notebook' (about the armies that are, were, and might have been) and 'Extra Muros' (about liberal education 'beyond the walls' of our dying universities.)
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