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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Sherman on Staffs
Imaginary Armies
In the last chapter of his memoirs, William Tecumseh Sherman compares the American staffs of his experience with a system proposed in France after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).
Sherman on Railroads
(US National Archives)
In the last chapter of his memoirs, William Tecumseh Sherman alternated between retrospective reflections upon his experience and musings about ways to frame the military forces of the immediate future. When, however...
Sherman on Signals
(US National Archives)
In the last chapter of his memoirs, William Tecumseh Sherman explains both his fondness for the telegraph and his disappointing experience of visual means of communication.
For the rapid transmission of orders in an...
Curious Consolidation
The Creation of the US Cavalry, 1855-1861
On Saturday, 3 August 1861, the Congress of the United States adopted An Act Providing for the Better Organization of the Military Establishment that, among many other things, changed the titles of...
Solutions to Short Problem 5
(US National Archives)
The first volume of the Infantry School Mailing List, which rolled off the press in 1931, offered readers a set of sixteen short tactical problems. On 8 June 2026, The Tactical Notebook published the fifth of these....
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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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