The Bazaar of War
Warfare, past and present. Read 'Saladin the Strategist': https://t.co/KT9cGzHRIj More writing: https://t.co/47yApgaler
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Itโs time for the myth of Inchon to die. The landings, which occurred 74 years ago today, are credited with turning the tide of the Korean War. In truth, they distracted from the r...
Africa saw a lot of fighting in both World Wars, but nowhere near the scale or importance of the main theaters. Secondary theaters are usually a drain on the weaker side, so itโs...
As the countryside west of Shanghai turned into a WWI-style quagmire of artillery barrages, failed assaults on machine gun nests, and flooded trenches, fighting broke out in northe...
The most decisive battle of the past 500 years was fought OTD in 1759, on a windswept Canadian plain by fewer than ten thousand men. It decided the fate of the Americas and shaped...
My latest Substack is on the tactical problem of deployment: how the imperative to get forces on line as speedily and orderly as possible makes it the basically the most fundamenta...
A few stories from the past week have shown just how much drones are transforming warfare. Itโs not their increased lethality or even their improved targeting for ground-based syst...
The concept of strategy has undergone three distinct evolutions from its original meaning of 'generalship'. Each was associated with a different level of war. The first occurred i...
I just published "The Levels of Warfare, Part 3: Operational Art" Was the "operational" really a new level of warfare? And did the Soviets invent it? The answer is no. And it's C...
CASTLE DOCTRINE Advances in weaponry have the paradoxical effect of shifting the advantage to the defense: crossbows & castles, cannons & star forts, artillery & trenches. Weโre...
The evolution of warfare and military technology is much, much less preordained than we tend to think. To illustrate, letโs imagine World War II in an alternate timeline. But this...
Hannibalโs famous victory at Cannae in 216 BC is one of the most misunderstood battles of all time. It is often cited as a tremendous victory won by a perfectly-executed double env...