On my 39th visit to Gettysburg, my wife and I had the privilege of taking Aishwarya who is a software engineer and an aspiring poet (she goes by Ash for short). This was an emergency trip, as sh...
https://scottmanning.com/content/gettysburg-after-action-report-september-10-2017/
In doing some research on the Battle of Marathon, I was reading the late A. R. Burn’s Persia and the Greeks (1962). He gets into the nitty-gritty of topography, religion, logistics, strategy, ...
https://scottmanning.com/content/military-historians-dont-evoke-other-battles-like-they-used-to/
I have trekked battlefields dating back to the Greco-Persian Wars and made more than three dozen trips to Gettysburg, so I am avid supporter of battlefield preservation. Until recently, I though...
https://scottmanning.com/content/a-case-against-battlefield-preservation/
Sun Tzu tells us that if we put our troops “in the most desperate straits, they will have no fear,” and having “nowhere else to turn, they will stand firm” (9.37). Some interpretations in...
https://scottmanning.com/content/if-you-visited-horseshoe-bend-battlefield-today/
In previous articles, we covered how historians have heaped praise upon Hans Delbrück and why that praise was warranted. However, it would be misleading to leave out the fact that many of Delbr�...
https://scottmanning.com/content/time-to-give-hans-delbrucks-work-an-honorable-burial/
With a potential war over Ukraine's sovereignty looming, it is important to understand the kind of war such a dispute could bring. Some of the largest wars started over what later seemed like ...
https://scottmanning.com/content/were-these-wars-worth-fighting-over-sovereignty/
We Americans treat many of our battlefields as sacred and weep for the ones that are lost to development. Groups such as the Civil War Trust do a superb job organizing people and money to buy up ...
https://scottmanning.com/content/culloden-battlefield-and-hallowed-ground/
In a previous article, I covered how military historians have stumbled over themselves to heap praise upon Hans Delbrück. Now I will demonstrate why that praise is warranted. In a future article...
https://scottmanning.com/content/hans-delbrucks-timeless-principles-troop-estimates-topography/
Why should military historians care about Hans Delbrück? Like it or not, the legacy of Delbrück as a military historian is still strong even 85 years after his death. Before we get into that, c...
https://scottmanning.com/content/is-hans-delbruck-worthy-of-this-praise/
Winston Churchill described the Battle of New Orleans (1815) as the “most irresponsible British onslaught” and “one of the most unintelligent maneuvers in the history of British warfare.”...
https://scottmanning.com/content/if-you-visited-the-chalmette-battlefield-today/