Tactical Notebook

I write about the armies that are, the armies that were, and the armies that might have been.

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Inspired by a video that Rob Words (@robwordsYT) posted on YouTube two years ago, 'Extra Muros' has just published a piece about German words that ought to find a home in English.

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Thank you, Branden Rapp, for the shout-out!

[The Command Post @HistoryBuff7986]

Half of my latest book order arrived. Looking forward to reading these, especially “On Infantry” by fellow Substacker, Marine, and military historian Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson.

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[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

There is a fascinating set of images available online at the IWM covering imagery from BRIXMIS. Worth looking up to see first hand how good their imagery was.

This is particularly powerful - Soviet soldiers at rest in East Germany, monitored by British soldiers.

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In 1916, an American psychologist described the sort of wargames that German officers liked to play.

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Why did pirates like cul-de-sacs?

@robwordsYT

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Earlier today, I discovered a largely unexploited collection of photos taken in 1917 and 1918.

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@VoicesofWW2 What's the civilian (wearing the straw hat) doing in the middle of this battlefield?

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@robwordsYT I loved this video. Bravo Zulu, Rob.

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Did you every wonder why 'provision' proved so popular among English speakers and 'prevision' failed to find regular work?

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The Tactical Notebook has just begun a series of decision-forcing cases about the commander of a regimental weapons company on Iwo Jima.

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In the past two weeks, the Tactical Notebook has published eight articles about the (greatly reduced) Marine Corps of 1947.

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Two years after the end of World War II, the US Marine Corps adopted a radical approach to organization.

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Why did the US Marine Corps hold on to its 37mm anti-tank guns after most other forces retired similar weapons?

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Extra Muros describes ...

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The best of what I read in the past week.

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Nineteen designs for the field artillery of an infantry division ...

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The best of what I read in the past week.

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Everyone else does 81, Tovarisch, so let's do 82.

https://t.co/8kXaIgK1JE

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The Tactical Notebook has updated its catalog of articles about mortars.

https://t.co/HpDZGKNZcq