The primary goal of modern warfare is the resolution of uncertainties.
This is done through the net-centric fusion, in real time, of multiple sensors, probability analysis, and signal processing to provide multi-platform cooperative engagement capabilities.
You see everything beautifully and can launch offensive or defensive assets at exactly the right targets for the current moment. – Andrei Martyanov, more or less
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Reminiscences
General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur
R. E. Lee
Douglas Southall Freeman
The Gallic Wars
Commentaries On The Gallic War (and here) (Wikipedia)
Roman Proconsul Julius Caesar
The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid
Homer and Virgil
M. Osipov on Numerical Strength
The Evolution Of Operational Art
Georgii Samoilovich Isserson
Related: Randy Noorman, The Russian Way Of War In Ukraine
Deep Operations / Deep Battle
Mikhail Tukhachevsky – Alexander Svechin – Vladimir Triandafillov
Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko
U.S. Third Army, The Lorraine Campaign, An Overview
Christopher R. Gabel
Demystifying The Correlation Of Forces Calculator
Dale Spurlin – Matthew Green
An Examination Of Force Ratios
Joshua T. Christian
Elements Of Military Art And Science and here and here
Henry Wager Halleck
The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
A. T. Mahan
An Anthology Of Russian Battle Doctrine
Lester W. Grau and Charles K. Bartles
An Anthology Of Slavic Military Studies
David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House +
An Anthology Of Works By / About
CAPT Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.
Who We Are, And Are Not
David R. Graham
A History Of Operational Art
LTC Wilson C. Blythe, U.S. Army
Emerging Naval Concepts & Integration
U.S. Navy, 12 February 2023
A Fateful Error
George F. Kennan
Travels In Arabia Deserta, Volume One, Volume Two
Charles Montagu Doughty
Advice To War Presidents: A Remedial Course In Statecraft — excerpts here
Angelo M. Codevilla
Leftism Revisited: From deSade And Marx To Hitler And PolPot
Erik von Luehnelt-Leddihn
The Templars: Knights Of Christ
Régine Pernoud
The Geographical Pivot Of History
Democratic Ideals And Reality
H. J. Mackinder
On The Plurality Of Civilizations
Feliks Koneczny
General Kenney Reports and here in PDF (31MB)
General George C. Kenney
Mac Arthur: 1941-1951 and here in PDF (46MB)
General Charles A. Willoughby
On the scale of Europe, Mac Arthur’s war took him roughly from the English Channel to the Persian Gulf, a distance at least twice that encompassed by Napoleon, Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great in their most extended campaigns. When Gen. J. J. Twitty of the Hawaiian Intelligence Center remarked on the ease with which information could be obtained on the Normandy beaches or Anzio as compared with collecting terrain data on Tarawa, he voiced a complaint that was relevant all over the Pacific. To solve the problem of the nonexistent terrain studies, the necessary Baedekers of war, Mac Arthur’s G-2 had to start absolutely from scratch. Before the war was over in August 1945, G-2’s Allied Geographical Section, one of the great unappreciated workhorses of the war, had turned out a grand aggregate of 193,555 terrain studies, terrain handbooks, and special reports, most of which had to be done on forced printing deadlines and hurried to troops and staffs on fixed dates, agreed upon for irrevocable operations. Throughout most of the war the documents were flown from Australia hundreds and even thousands of miles to the front, on split-second schedules. The unmapped terrain of New Guinea and the other islands was more often than not just about as tough and tenacious as the Japanese themselves.
The Prince
(without notes)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Von Clausewitz And Trinitarian Warfare
Christopher Bassford
Born Fighting
James H. Webb, Jr.
How The Scots Invented The Modern World
Arthur Herman
Scottish Highlanders
Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin
Brotherhood of the Bomb
Gregg Herken
U.S. Army Field Manual, No. 100-5
U.S. Department Of The Army, August 1982
U.S. Army Field Manual, 3-0 Operations
U.S. Department Of The Army, October 2022
Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Infantry Rifle Company
U.S. Department Of The Army, November 2020
A Little Masquerade: Russia’s Evolving Employment of
Maskirovka
MAJ Morgan Maier – SAMS – Leavenworth
Deep Operations in the 21st Century
MAJ Tony E. Nicosia – SAMS – Leavenworth
Coup d’oeil: The Commander’s Intuition in Clausewitzian Terms
Major Dominic J. Caraccilo and Major John L. Pothin
Russian Military Schools
Distinctly Different Doctrine- Why Multi-Domain Operations Isn’t AirLand Battle 2.0
The Company Of
Insufferable Dimwits
Wear the invisible badge of a volunteer of God at all hours and in all places. Let all the days of living be a continuous offering of Love, as an oil lamp exhausts itself in illumining the surroundings. Bend the body, mend the senses, and end the mind – that is the process of attaining the status of ‘the children of immortality,’ which the Upanishads have reserved for man. God is the embodiment of sweetness. Attain Him by offering unto Him, who resides in all, the sweetness that He has showered on you. Crush the cane in the mill of Seva, boil it in the cauldron of penitence; de-colorise it of all sensual itch; offer the crystallised sugar of compassionate love to Him. Man is the noblest of all animals, the final product of untold ages of progressive evolution; but, he is not consciously striving to live up to his heritage!
- Sathya Sai Baba – Divine Discourse, June 26, 1969 / Daily Email, Sai Inspires: Subscription
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