Need a maneuver warfare “starter pack?” Do the reading w/ “A New Conception of War” & “Snowmobiles & Grand Ideals” from MCUP ([email protected]). Then play the concepts w/#ManeuverWarfare from the @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social: dietzfoundation-org.square.site/product/mane...

Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at [email protected] for your free copy today!

We really don’t deserve this goodness after all that other goodness. But we’ll take it. #NEPats

Patriots vs. Jets recap: Pats do enough to win 27-14 on Thursday Night Football.

For me it’s never quite real until I hold it in my hand…& today’s that day! Print copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” w/ Frans Osinga are in; email MCUP at [email protected] to request your copy! & yes, it’s a chonky little fella; doubles as a SAPI plate if needed.

"School curricula and training programs of instruction all have fixed amounts of time available for students. So if you plug in wargaming, something else needs to come out." - Ian T. Brown @iantb.bsky.social (Wargame Analyst at Group W, an SPA Company), writes for @armchairdragoons.bsky.social

Since we’re living in unprecedented times anyway, it would amuse me to no end for Pope Leo to remind Vance (& Rubio, & others in the admin) that excommunication & interdict were tools used by previous popes to humble kings who forgot that power resides in many places, not just a temporal throne.

To the brave keyboard hero whose response to this was that I was a “delusional militarist” who should kill himself—thanks for the input & upon reflection, if I did things over, I’d write the same thing but use smaller words so you could follow along better: armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...

There’s a saying: the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

No matter the clime or place, the danger or boredom, 2 years or 20—if you’re a veteran, you did something few undertake. And you didn’t ask for gold or glory, just the chance to be with your other brothers and sisters on the wall and tell evil: “not on my watch.” #VeteransDay

If you want to make it to Veterans Day you first have to survive the Marine Corps Birthday.

Get your #wargaming week going with my AAR of the “Wargaming as an Analytical and Training Tool in Military and Civilian Environment” conference at AWL a few weeks back. It was a deeply illuminating experience: people… armchairdragoons.com/serious-peop...

Happy Birthday Devil Dogs! 250!!!

Happy birthday you filthy animals! #USMC #Marines #250

These New England Patriots are for real.

Stefon Diggs’ feet are amazing. #NEPats

Saw Iliza Shlesinger’s DC show tonight and she asked 4 people in the audience what they did and they all gave the most DC answers possible: “Technical salesman” “CPA” “Program Manager” “Navy”

LOAC is about two things: creating space for a lasting peace when the fight’s over, and more importantly, ensuring that when your own troops come home they don’t spend the rest of their lives looking in the mirror and seeing a monster look back at them.

NEW: Top 10 things SECDEF is spending money on while you’re not getting paid www.duffelblog.com/top-10-thing...

#Wargaming ICYMI #3–my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame has a page on @boardgamegeek.com; check it out for the rules PDF, and by all means, if you have questions about how something works in the game, PLEASE ask them! @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45...

#Wargaming ICYMI #2–my write-up on the recent #wargaming conference at AWL: www.spa.com/focus-global...

#Wargaming ICYMI #1–check out my interview w/ @playersaidblog.bsky.social on the design philosophy, development, and gameplay of my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social: theplayersaid.com/2025/10/27/i...

Thanks for the share!

Michael Pigford 11/4/2024 Not forgotten. S/F.

Got my game designer’s box of #ManeuverWarfare today from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social! Can’t wait to find some worthy gaming tables for these. #wargaming

Weekend #wargaming with the youngest. Time to target the shield generators:

Your regularly scheduled reminder of one of the pioneering groups of what is now called operations research was a group of teen and twenty something women led by a gamer too ill for sea duty trying to do their part to defend their island home.

Ok Blue Jays, let’s play ball.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

It’s a little box, but it holds three years of my life. My thanks to @playersaidblog.bsky.social for the chance to tell the story of #ManeuverWarfare from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social from inception of publication. Keep #wargaming! #USMC #Marines theplayersaid.com/2025/10/27/i...

My thanks to @playersaidblog.bsky.social for their interview on my #ManeuverWarfare #wargame game from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social. This is perhaps the most exhaustive discussion of the game’s origins, development, and mechanics available to date: theplayersaid.com/2025/10/27/i...

Our interview with Ian Brown designer of #Maneuver Warfare from The Dietz Foundation. theplayersaid.com/2025/10/27/i...

For Kyle. 10/26/2009 Not forgotten. S/F.

The PDF rulebook for #ManeuverWarfare is now up on @boardgamegeek.com! URL for download is below: @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social #wargaming #USMC #Marines boardgamegeek.com/filepage/309...

You want a military tradition worth venerating? We took immigrants who grew up in rough neighborhoods and the culture of football and ran through the SS like shit through a goose.

Weekend #wargaming continues—new round of “2045” under way:

Weekend #wargaming—some players thought the standard “Wings of Glory” scenario I run should be, well, even harder, so I’m adding dynamic weather in the form of moving clouds to unpredictably obscure bombing targets. Didn’t hurt it gave me an excuse to acquire a new map as well.

It’s been almost axiomatic for a long time that John Boyd can’t be fully understood because he never wrote anything down. That argument no longer holds. “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” is the definite Boyd, in his own words, from start to finish: www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/...

A throwback for weekend #wargaming—I wrote this short story for the Australian Defence College’s sci-fi contest a few years back. Beware big systems or the “one game to rule them all…” theforge.defence.gov.au/article/endg...

Me to basically everyone in charge right now:

Paul Van Riper back on his shit again. Chowder was never about getting back to “no old breed, new breed, just Marine breed,” or “rank doesn’t matter, only ideas matter.” If you’re not his generation, you’re soft and can never be a “real” Marine.

Now that my #ManeuverWarfare #cardgame #wargame from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social is released to the wild, I’m compiling the tutorial videos for it on the playlist below. I still have a couple videos to make but this will get you started! #Wargaming #USMC #Marines youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Attending a #wargaming conference in Poland, it’s been interesting to gauge feelings on “is there even a whiff of #AI in your game design” vs “will this #wargame tool help prepare me to stop the monster who is raping, murdering, & destroying a country hours from my border from doing the same to me.”

#ManeuverWarfare is finally hitting the streets! If you pre-ordered from @thedietzfoundation.bsky.social, copies are going out as we speak. And now that I’ve got my own official copy, I finally get the @sebastianbae.bsky.social card back that mysteriously wandered off at Modern Day Marine!

I’ve seen more laser-related posts in the last 24 hours on this site than on, well, any other site I traffic ever, so let me offer my 2 cents: Don’t point lasers at aircraft. Ever. Period. There is no “but.” Don’t fucking do it.

I forgot what it was like to watch a Pats QB sling balls down the field with …skill.