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Mar 29, 20225 min read
Dead or Alive?: Tank Employment in Modern Warfare by Captain Christopher Telle, USA
A few weeks ago, media commentators on modern warfare and combat arms widely shared this video, which allegedly shows a Russian tank...
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thewarfightingsociety
Mar 11, 202210 min read
The Massengale-Damon Letters (#3)
Editor-in-Chief's Note: The letter below and those that follow it were forwarded to the Warfighting Society. Written in response to Major...
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thewarfightingsociety
Feb 18, 202213 min read
Just Call It “Warfare”: Why Manoeuvre Warfare Retards Progress in the Profession of Arms - Wilf Owen
If you're a manoeuvrist or believe in manoeuvre warfare, then you risk being both a hostage to bad history and to closing yourself off...
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thewarfightingsociety
Feb 11, 202215 min read
Book Review: Prodigal Soldiers by David Kerby
James Kitfield. Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War. New York...
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thewarfightingsociety
Feb 4, 20223 min read
Vulgate Maneuverism: Bastardizing the OODA Loop By Major Matthew Tweedy, USMC
I first heard of the OODA Loop as a young corporal at FOB Hit, Iraq, in 2005. I remember sitting on a pallet of soda cans amidst steel...
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thewarfightingsociety
Jan 21, 202215 min read
SNCO Day in Golf Company: A Short Story of Warfighting in Garrison by LtCol Tim Jackson, USMC (Ret)
Scene: The garrison command post of a U.S. Marine Corps infantry battalion on a weekday morning, just after PT. LtCol Patrick “Paddy”...
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thewarfightingsociety
Jan 15, 20225 min read
Maneuver Warfare: Epistemic Rocket Fuel By Major Matthew Tweedy, USMC
In a previous essay, I suggested that maneuver warfare, the official warfighting doctrine of the U.S. Marine Corps, is fading from that...
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thewarfightingsociety
Jan 14, 20225 min read
Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #1 by 1stLt William Allred, USMC
Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit #1 (https://mmpgamers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_8&products_id=10) Bottom Line Up...
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thewarfightingsociety
Jan 6, 20222 min read
On Our Dollar-oriented DOD: A Letter from Col Michael D. Wyly, USMC (Ret)
I fully agree with the concerns of the authors of the three recent articles on our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our Defense Department...
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thewarfightingsociety
Jan 6, 20226 min read
Four Decades on: A Midlife Crisis for Maneuver Warfare by Major Matthew Tweedy, USMC
If maneuver warfare were a man, what would we make of him? When “he” arrived on the scene in the late 1970s, he stood full of vim and...
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thewarfightingsociety
Dec 31, 202120 min read
The Ghost & General Smith: The Complete Story by Scott Weibling, Jordan Miller, and Matt Tweedy
(For the full audio version presented by Controversy and Clarity, please visit: https://anchor.fm/damien-oconnell/episodes/The-Ghost-and-...
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David K
Dec 17, 20216 min read
A Response to Easton and Thiele by Maj. Ian T. Brown, USMC.
Failure tends to drive reflection, and recently here at The Maneuverist, two authors have reflected on the recent collapse of American...
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thewarfightingsociety
Dec 11, 20213 min read
A Response to “What Good Losers Do" by LtCol Gregory A. Thiele, USMC (Ret.)
Members of the Islamist Militant Group Boko Haram https://ctc.usma.edu/boko-haram-beyond-headlines-analyses-africas-enduring-insurgency/...
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thewarfightingsociety
Nov 25, 202112 min read
What Good Losers Do by Easton*
Marines of the III Marine Amphibious Force in 1968. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/october/invading-north-vie...
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David K
Nov 12, 20215 min read
Amphibious Warfare: German Style
A book review by Damien O'Connell (originally written in 2008) Operation Albion by Michael Barrett. Indiana University Press, Bloomington...
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thewarfightingsociety
Nov 10, 20214 min read
The Ghost & General Smith: Chapter 5 and Epilogue by Scott Weibling, Jordan Miller, and Matt Tweedy
Chapter 5 November 2022. King Hall, Naval Postgraduate School. “Do you recognize this auditorium?” asks Saint Barbara. General Smith...
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thewarfightingsociety
Nov 3, 202112 min read
Reflection on Failure By Major Matthew Tweedy, USMC
Plato and Aristotle in Raphael's "The School of the Athens" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_(Classical)#/media/File:Sanzio_01_croppe...
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thewarfightingsociety
Nov 3, 20216 min read
The Ghost & General Smith: Chapter 4 by Scott Weibling, Jordan Miller, and Matt Tweedy
St. Barbara, Patron Saint of Artillerymen Modified from the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Barbara#/media/File:Saint_Barba...
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thewarfightingsociety
Oct 19, 20214 min read
The Ghost & General Smith: Chapter 3 by Scott Weibling, Jordan Miller, and Matt Tweedy
St. Barbara, Patron Saint of Artillerymen Modified from the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Barbara#/media/File:Saint_Barba...
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