 Dr. Larsen, if you ever happen to actually see this video, please know that I actually do like you and I'm a really big fan of all the stuff you do. Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. And today's book is the Smart Book, S Small Unit Tactics, S3, by Dr. Christopher Larsen and Norman Wade. I have reviewed one of Dr. Larsen's other books on this channel called Light Infantry Tactics. Long story short, I would direct you to that book over this one and we will talk about why here. So this book is titled Small Unit Tactics. Honestly, I think this book would be better titled something like Big Corporate Structure for the Army for Unit Commanders from Battalion Size and Smaller. And if you're like, geez, that's a really copy title, what does that mean? I would say that kind of encompasses this book in the sense that this is one of the driest books that I have yet reviewed on this channel. If you think about reading military manuals, right? Military manuals are manuals that are written for a corporate structure and that corporate structure is the Army. It'd be like going into an HVAC manufacturer and reading one of the manuals for one of their rooftop units, right? That's essentially kind of sort of what you're doing. And so often military manuals, and this one being the biggest violator, I have very dry language and it's communicated in this very academic and just, I guess, dry fashion be the best way to say it. And this one is probably the creme de creme of the driest reading I've done so far. And I really hate saying that because I really like Christopher Larson. I'm subscribed to his YouTube channel. I love light infantry tactics. I've been to one shepherd. Like, I'm a big fan of all he's doing over there, but I gotta be honest and I just think this book is a pass because look, if you're reading this book as an everyday American person, right? And you just want to learn more about small unit tactics and how to fight as a team and garner things that you can use to embrace your martial American heritage. This book ain't it because this book, like I said, it's really written in the context of that corporate American military structure and being able to communicate and follow all the procedures that they have in the giant U.S. military because when you're working with tens of thousands of guys trying to conduct a battle you have to have certain procedures in order for things to move visually. And this book will help guide you through on how to do that and help explain the different tasks and different attacks and defenses and whatever that you participate and then how to communicate that up to higher and take information down from higher and that whole rigmarole. As an everyday guy who just maybe has four, six, 10 friends, whatever, that you're getting together with to train and learn and read stuff on how to do, this book just, there's not that much to glean from here. Light Infantry Tactics by Larson. I would point you to that book. There's tons to glean. Super helpful book. But this one, not so much. And I'm just gonna blame it on this Norman Wade guy because I have no idea who he is and we'll just say he ruined the whole book. One of the things I do wanna be real with you about is this is my bookmark. So I only got about a third of the way through that book, if you can see that. I did not finish all of this book. I'll be completely honest. And so maybe it gets better but I really tried and I gave it multiple turns to come back and thought I was in a bad mood. Maybe I just didn't like it, whatever. But at the end of the day, I think just, I realized what it's addressing isn't what I need because it's really addressing that how to be a commander of men in the actual US Army and how to follow their procedures and do all their stuff and understand the language of what it is they're accomplishing there. And yeah, can you glean stuff for your everyday person? Yeah, probably. But there are much better books that I would point you to. So I hope that's helpful. I hope that gives you some ideas about where to spend your reading time. Again, check out Lighting for New Tactics by Christopher Larson. And Mr. Larson, if you ever see this, please know that I really do love you. I hope that's helpful. This is Smart Book, Small Unit Tactics, S3 by Dr. Christopher Larson and Norman M. Wade. Do brave deeds and endure.