. There are two land-to-land ballistic rocket design philosophies in the SRBM and MRBM brackets: One is the kind we in the West have known...

. A blog post about the real drone problem is overdue because I do not see ANY indication that the real problem is part of the public discou...

  So, here's the issue that makes American-Clausewitzian thought rather useless for strategy: They write about winning a war 1vs1 or coa...

. It's about time to spell out something painfully obvious, because I don't see anyone else doing it: Russia would have lost this wa...

. A string of twitter threads by different authors create an impression that this war is very different, kind of with different rules than ...

. The Russo-Ukrainian War turned into a trench war contrary to my expectations. The Russian ground forces' ability to break through suc...

. Fantasy force designs are almost a hobby to some people with interest in military affairs. I did very largely resist this albeit I did a ...

. I realised that I didn't describe the tactics for the armour battalion for the exploitation brigade properly. That battalion has fou...

. Maneuver/manoeuvre is movement to exploit superior readiness. This definition is not limited to the age of firearms. It's giving man...

. A definition serves the purpose to enable clear communication about an abstract thing or concept. A good definition also makes thought ab...

. Back in September 1939 a section of German infantrymen entered a Polish barn and went to sleep in the straw. One man woke up the next mor...

. "Maneuver warfare" or "Third Generation Warfare", as it was termed by a group of American theorists, is widely consid...

. I remember an article headline from one of the U.S. Army journals (90's); IIRC it was "What happened to the close ambush?"....

. engelsbergideas.com/essays/russian-fortifications-present-an-old-problem-for-ukraine/ It's not a bad article, but I disagree because ...

. This is a 2020 paper draft that was IIRC submitted to and rejected by CIMSEC (they published other drafts of mine). I just rediscovered i...