 I'm just gonna say before we get started that this book speaks to my tactical soul and therefore I would recommend it to you. Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and we're back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. This one is MCDP 1-3. It's a Marine Corps doctrine manual and it's titled Tactics. I've had this one downloaded as a PDF. I will put the link below. All I can find it, you can find it on the internet, you can download it, print your own copy. That's what I did and then I bound it. So this is readily available. I've had this one for months on my computer and just haven't printed it out and read it because originally when I first started reading books about tactics, what I wanted was battle drills, right? I wanted to know like, okay, you know, how should we go about the flank and where are we gonna go and like what are we gonna do? And like I wanted like step-by-step instruction. I wanted the science of tactics. I wanted those battle drills. And now that I've read some of those and I have a good understanding of the general kind of idea and principles and movements and the understanding of battle drills a little bit better, this book is fantastic. I think this was written like 1997. So it's more than 20 years old at this point and there's probably updated versions of it. I don't know, I didn't look. But this particular manual is the best military manual I have ever read. It is extremely readable and the pages, you know, when this prints out, I mean, they're not big, right? They're like these little half pages. So it's a quick read. I mean, it's only 150 pages. So it's a very easy accessible read and it does a very good job of exploring the more philosophical base of tactics and understanding things like speed and being faster and consistently faster than the enemy and how we do that. It does a very good job. A lot of military manuals happen at the battalion, regiment, you know, maybe even the company level and they don't really get down to like the nitty gritty like fire team level. This manual does a fantastic job of explaining, okay, this is what this concept means on like your fire team. This is what this concept means in a battalion level. This is how we apply and think about that concept. It does a really, really good job of that. It kind of goes through all, like I said, the main philosophical bases of tactics. So you have things like how to achieve a decision, gaining advantage, being faster, adapting, cooperating, exploiting success and finishing. It's really, it's only eight chapters all said and done. Like I said, it's a short read, but it gives you these philosophical bases for understanding tactics better and how to think in the art side of tactics. If you have understand some battle drills, if you've done some reading before and you've done kind of the step-by-step stuff, put this in your queue for your next read. Like I said, you can print it off for free. You can just read it on your computer. If you're into that thing, I can't do that. I need to read an actual book. But put this in your queue because it's really gonna help you understand the philosophy and like I said, the art side of tactics that undergird all of those battle drills and all of those, hey, we're gonna go here and do this and whatever. This will help you understand the kind of bigger picture slash philosophical picture. So I would highly, highly recommend this. This book spoke to my tactical soul and that's why I recommend it so much. I really, really enjoyed reading it because they're big on things like aggression and speed and seizing the initiative and that's how you win fights. So there might be an updated version of it out there. Like I said, don't know, didn't look. Just had this one on my computer for a while and so I printed it and finally read it. Highly recommended the MCDP 1-3 Tactics by the United States Marine Corps. Do brave deeds and endure.