Substacks recommended by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Recommended by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Global Guerrillas

By John Robb

Frameworks for decision-makers at the intersection of war, politics, and technology

Global Guerrillas offers a holistic, highly Boydian view of 'women, horses, power, and war'.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Hard Fork by Marvin Liao

Silicon Valley Meets the World. Strong Opinions & Perspective on Personal Development, Self Sovereignty, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, The Technology & Media Biz.

The ISIS Reader

By Craig Whiteside

This blog serves as our platform to discuss all issues related to the continuing evolution of the Islamic State movement, with ties to our 2020 Hurst/Oxford book of primary sources and commentary.

Written by Andrew

You've seen Writing with Andrew—here's writing by Andrew.

WW2 MATTERS

By Ru Johnson

'WW2 Matters' shines a light on unsung aspects of the Second World War.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Saxon Cross

By Andrew Henry

“Hwær cwom mearg? Hwær cwom mago?”

If you like Tolkien, you will love the Saxon Cross.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Polymathic Being

By Michael Woudenberg

Polymathic Being is a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays take common topics and explore them from different perspectives and disciplines and, in doing so, come up with unique insights and solutions.

Polymathic Being offers the best insights on the art of management this side of Parkinson's Law.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Connecting File

Articles on leadership, training, and tactics for the Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance communities.

Run by some of the smartest Marines I know - and I know lots - CXF keeps me in touch with the folks at the tip of the proverbial spear.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Brogues Britannicus

By Samuel Chapman

Architecture, Art, Anglicana, Aesthetics, and Anything else

Take a walk along Hadrian's Wall.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Downrange Data

By Erik Davis

The guns and zeros of data driven advantage in the Army.

Delightfully eclectic, Downrange Data looks at leadership through a variety of unexpected lenses.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Big Serge Thought

Musings and Ponderings

Big Serge dives deeply into the history of battle, and, in particular, into the Western way of war.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Whirl of ReOrientation: Escape the Script. Win the War.

By The Whirl Of ReOrientation: Escape The Script. Win The War.

Everything depends on Orientation. Rebuild yours now, or be weaponized by someone else’s.

Mark McGrath puts his readers in contact with the thinking of America's greatest strategic thinker, John R. Boyd.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Marine Corps Compass Points

Broader Thinking, Deeper Understanding, and Better Decisions, for a Stronger Marine Corps

If you are interested in the future of the US Marine Corps or the art of force design, this blog is for you.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Modern Wargaming

By JG

A simple substack about wargaming and painting models.

Modern Wargaming uses models to showcase the essential features of armored fighting vehicles, thereby providing a fun way to keep up with 'AFV G-2'.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Making History Come Alive

By Richard Bluttal

History non fiction articles

Just like it says on the tin ... 'Making History Come Alive' makes history ... you guessed it ... come alive.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

On A Side Note

By Sarah

Written prolifically in the margins by a Midnight Writer

Sarah Seifried offers unique insights into the great riddle that is Russia.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Dead Carl and You

By Kiran Pfitzner

Discussions of strategy and contemporary events by a Clausewitz scholar

Beyond the Art of War

By Democura

War is often all-encompassing and with few limitations, so should our search for knowledge and understanding be. It is therefore that we should look Beyond the Art of War. For those interested in Philosophy, Science, Morality and the Art of War.

Democura offers insights I can't get anywhere else.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Missile Matters — with Fabian Hoffmann

By Missile Matters with Fabian Hoffmann

Missile Matters is my personal blog, where I share insights on the latest developments in the nuclear and missile domains in Ukraine and beyond. If Putin decides to nuke us all, you will read about it here first.

Contarini’s Attic

Odds and ends about things that interest me, mostly literary and historical, frequently Victorian and Edwardian.

The most interesting Venetian merchant prince since Marco Polo, Contarini presents his readers with well-chosen passages from literary gems of bygone days.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Professional Amateur

By Argo

Dabbling diligently into difficulty.

Argo casts a wide net. In so doing, he widens my perspective, expands my horizons, and gives me lots of interesting things to think about.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Lens of History

I am looking forward to lots of good things from The Lens of History.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Library of Celaeno

By Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno is a cosmic repository of wisdom located deep in the Taurus Constellation.

The Librarian casts a wide net over the realm of culture, thereby catching lots of fascinating fishes.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

True North Strategic Review

By Noah

True North Strategic Review is Canada’s sharpest voice on defence and national security. Led by analyst Noah Gairn, we deliver clear, credible insights on procurement, capability development, and military policy.

'True North Strategic Review' offers an important perspective on Canadian defence policy.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

History in Story

Stories and thoughts on history. Discussions on culture and current events.

History in Story casts new light on old events, famous and otherwise.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Atletas Tácticos

By Felipe de Atleta Táctico

Divulgación sobre preparación física, técnica y moral de militares. Entrenamiento y conocimiento para tu desempeño y salud.

Written in clear, accessible Spanish, Atletas Tácticos gives you an opportunity to both practice your language skills and learn a lot about functional fitness.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

ShadowBox Decision Games: Warfighters

Training Warfighters how to think, decide, and lead under pressure

ShadowBox puts you in contact with John Schmitt, author of 'Warfighting' and the O.G. of Marine Corps tactical decision games.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Becoming Noble

By Johann Kurtz

Build family, resources, and security as the West declines. Get the weekly email to join the new elite.

Becoming Noble aims at nothing less than the creation of an aristocracy worthy of the name. Chivalry lives!

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Monique Taylor - Forgotten Archives of History

By MoniqueTaylorauthor

The Untold Story of the Glider Pilots of WWII - the Mission - the Myths - the Challenges.

The tales Taylor tells of the American glider troops of World War II complete the Airborne annals found in 'Ridgeway's Notebook'.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Iran Wonk

By IranWonk

'Iran Wonk' provides a perspective I have not seen elsewhere.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Battlegrounds+

By Nathan Drescher

For military history junkies, armchair generals, and strategy nerds.

'Battlegrounds' tells twice-told tales in a fresh and engaging way.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Chalkley’s Thoughts on Military History

By Jay Hambleton

Articles on military personalities, campaigns, engagements and equipment

The articles posted on 'Chalkey's Thoughts' remind me of the pieces I used to read in MHQ magazine.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Defragged History's Substack

History is often told in bits and pieces, in fragments. Defragged History puts all the pieces together in order and tells you the whole story from beginning to end.

Defragged History tells tales of the keystone in the history of modern Europe, the saga of the Dutch Republic.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Donald Vandergriff

A 26 year Marine and US Army officer. I served enlisted time as a Marine infantryman and enlisted tanker. Author or editor of 11 books and over a 100 articles on leader development, military culture and Maneuver Warfare.

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Adam Tooze uses eye-catching charts to explain the trends, both obvious and subtle, that are shaping our world.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Fire For Effect

By B. A. Friedman

Strategy and Military History musings from B.A. Friedman

Brett Friedman never fails to tell me something new.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Anastomosing Dendrite

By Truman Angell

Christ, Counter-Mobility, Classicism, Conservatism, Cornbread, and Catagenesis

Come for the alliteration. Stay for the deep wisdom.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Rob’s Substack

By Rob Pirie

We are reading through the Harvard Classics 50 volume series! Come join me along the journey and read, listen, watch, and follow along!

Rob Pirie occupies a place of particular honor in my pantheon of autodidacts.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

The Bazaar of War

By BCD

Warfare, Past and Present

The Bazaar of War challenges the way that I think of the tactics and operations of forces that fight on land.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Logan House Publishing

By J.R.

Logan House Publishing. The best fly-by-night self-publishing of Hero and Adventure Fiction. If you want to read a story and forget for a while come to The World of 'We Were Heroes'.

Warfare Mastery Institute

Detailed analysis of tactics, operations, strategy, history and technology, delivered with cutting-edge, multimedia learning tools for all audiences including scholars, military, law enforcement and security professionals.

The Warfare Mastery Institute epitomizes 'brilliance in the basics'.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Jünger Translation Project

Translating the work of Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger

Translating the work of Ernst Jünger is rarely easy, but always worth the effort.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Ridgway's Notebook

By Tyler Fox

Musings on the history of the airborne in WWII, its principles & developments, triumph's & failures - just the thing occupying Ridgway's notebook.

Tyler Fox displays a rare ability to pull meaning out of tactical details.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Coeling Chronicler

By Aurochs

Uncovering the history of the lost kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd, the Coeling Dynasty of Northern Britain, and finding the root of the Arthurian legends along the way.

Aurochs, Arthur, and the Anvil helps me escape the temporal parochialism that comes from spending so much time studying the events of the past two centuries.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Glenn’s Substack

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds

thoughts and observations from Glenn Reynolds.

I've enjoyed Glenn Reynold's work since the days of Instapundit.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Extra Muros

By Bruce I Gudmundsson

Extra Muros explores ways people can obtain the benefits of higher education while remaining "outside the walls" of our dying universities.

Extra Muros celebrates, champions, and informs people engaged in self-directed education.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Verbal Notes

A Digital Meeting Place for Practitioners and Students in Diplomacy, Defense, Development and Humanitarian Action.

Verbal Notes helps me find articles I would otherwise miss.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

CDR Salamander

National security, maritime challenges, naval issues with a flavoring of other things I find interesting.

I have long relied on Commander Salamander for insights into all things naval, maritime, and geopolitical.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Crann na beatha

By Joseph L. Wiess

Stories from the Crucible of Life

If you're in the market for short stories, this is a good place to start your search.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Tales from the history of innovation.

Age of Invention puts me in touch with the deep background of the history that I study.

- Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson