Archive - Ridgway's Notebook

The Airborne Boats

-and- Drones, Drones, Drones

Apr 27 •

March 2024

Death Ignores the Golden Hour

Mar 30 •

scale is the keyword in LSCO

Mar 23 •

History's Duplicity

Mar 9 •

February 2024

Precision and Dispersion

Welcome to Ridgway’s Notebook, your home for airborne PME. We offer penetrating essays on military history. Through the World War II experiences of…

Feb 10 •

Reinforced Winter 4: All Americans in the Battle of the Bulge

The Fighting Withdrawal

Feb 3 •

January 2024

Reinforced Winter 3: All Americans in the Battle of the Bulge

Jan 20 •

Reinforced Winter 2: All Americans in the Battle of the Bulge

What the 82nd Airborne tells us about organization and attacking the defense of the future

Jan 13 •

Long live (great) war books

Welcome to Ridgway’s Notebook, your home for airborne PME. We offer penetrating essays on military history. Through the World War II experiences of…

Jan 6 •

December 2023

Reinforced Winter 1: All Americans in the Battle of the Bulge

What the 82nd Airborne tells about dispersion and the future of landpower

Dec 30, 2023 •

Ridgway's Notebook Christmas Special

A Christmas in Company F

Dec 16, 2023 •

What a 40 year old book reveals about future war

musings over "Surgeon on Iwo"

Dec 9, 2023 •

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