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Can we fathom the perplexing complexity of Victorian horse-soldiery?
If, Gentle Reader, you wish to take leave of your senses, I suggest that begin your journey into madness by diving, head first, into the world of nineteenth-century caval...
In the past month or so, I refurbished some of the articles posted in the early days of The Tactical Notebook. In the course of doing this, I did things like …
improve graphics
touch up prose
correct errors
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(US National Archives)
The following problem appeared in the first semi-annual volume of the Infantry School Mailing List, which rolled off the press in 1931. (This periodical, which might well be described as a journal in all but name, re...
The Decision-Forcing Case
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