The Thursday Downer on Friday

With the implosion of our Russian misinformation gig we thought to ourselves, we thought,  'Maybe we should see about writing a few magazine articles. Afterall it's been a while since...' Then we realized that just this year articles of ours have appeared in Military History Matters (Battle of the Chinese Farm) and Strategy & Tactics Magazine (Hunter Liggett). 

We stopped. We paused. We thought back to the winter of 2007. We had a newborn at home and we were doing Mr. Mom Duty. We vividly remember one late January night going to Borders to work on a magazine article about the then happening Ethiopian War in Somalia. Doing so took a lot of effort to arrange as well as time to write. The article appeared in Strategy & Tactics Magazine (bastards). Here it is now on Substack, Battles of the War on Terror Part II: Ethiopian Blitz. We were getting 10-12 articles in print per year. We were obsessed. We were fanatical. 

After we obsessed that we were beholden to the Decision Games Magazine empire, we worked fanatically to get articles in print elsewhere. And so we did. See the sidebar at right, also Ancient Warfare, Medieval Warfare, Against the Odds, Art of War.Ru (an early attempt at collusion)...We even got stuff in print, or pixels, anyway at Like Totally 80s (we still have the jacket).

We've written close to a hundred magazine articles, many of them available on the sidebar at right. We wrote about...the Duke of Marlborough and William the Conqueror (both S&T cover articles), The Fulani Jihad (the what?) Israel's preparations for war with Iran and Hezbollah (another S&T cover) a dozen articles about Pershing (in preparation for Pershing in Command) and on and on. These articles were really important to us back in the 2000s and through about 2015. 

We fell into a gig writing about WWII in Burma, producing articles on (Stillwell, Meiktila, Myitkyina, Orde Wingate, 77 Chindit Brigade, Merrill's Marauders, The Indian Army in WWII, Green Hell: Battles for Burma) which eventually led to A March Through Hell.  This blog is loath to give writing advice, but we will advise this: when one writes about a subject, one should keep writing about that subject so one becomes an expert who can write even more about said subject.

In 2010 we began writing a series of magazine articles about Pershing and the AEF. About 2015 we decided that writing magazine articles had taken us as far as it could go. We used that time to work on Pershing in Command instead, which we published in 2018. We haven't written a magazine article from scratch since...found it, 2015. So there you go.

And now? Well, we forgot we just had two magazine articles out recently. So what was it all about then?