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Tyler Fox's avatar

1. Beautifully written.

2. If you haven’t read it yet, check out THE WANDERING ARMY, probably the best book I read this year. One of its primary themes is tracing some of these unofficial doctrines carried by RA officers.

3. Just before reading this, I was in FM 3-0 reading some of how the writers view defensive operations. It seems to me a lot more unofficial honestly is needed in those pages.

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Dermot Rooney's avatar

Stylish. 81 does suppress nearly as much as 155. "What matters most is the number of bangs." Military Operational Research Unit, 1946.

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Shady Maples's avatar

Do you have a link to "The Art of Science"?

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Shady Maples's avatar

Thanks! I have a number of colleagues who will find these useful (plus me, of course).

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