Index of Articles

The Big Serge Codex

For ease of reference, I will endeavor to keep this list updated with all the articles published here, ordered chronologically by topic or series.

Russia-Ukraine War

• Russo-Ukrainian War Six Month Retrospective (Aug 31, 2022)

• Ukrainian Kharkov Counterattack (Sep 9, 2022

• SMO Season 2: Russian Mobilization (Sep 12, 2022

• Russian Radicalization: The Winter of Yuri (Sep 29, 2022

• Sound and Fury: Nukes and Force Generation Problems (Oct 28, 2022

• Surovikin’s Difficult Choices: Russian Kherson Withdrawal (Nov 12, 2022)

• The World Blood Pump: Battle at Bakhmut (Jan 20, 2023)

• Shrodinger’s Offensive (Mar 1, 2023)

• Pentagon Leak Biopsy (Apr 10, 2023)

• The Battle of Bakhmut: A Postmortem (Jun 2, 2023)

• Dam! The Nova Kakhovka Dam Breach (Jun 7, 2023)

• The Wagner Uprising (June 26, 2023)

• Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice (Aug 29, 2023)

• Russo-Ukrainian War: The Reckoning (Nov 15, 2023)

• The Deluge: Z World Turns Two (Mar 1, 2024)

• Russo-Ukrainian War: Widening the Front (May 25, 2024)

• Back to the Bloodlands: Operation Krepost (August 20, 2024)

• The Forest and the Trees: Ukraine's Strategic Dissipation (October 31, 2024)

History of Russia

Coming Soon

Military History: Maneuver

• Part 1: Concentric Attack and Schwerpunkt (Nov 4, 2022)

• Part 2: Dispersement, Ambiguity, and Concentric Movement (Nov 10, 2022)

• Part 3: Archaic Annihilation Battles

• Part 4: Turning Movements and the Geometry of Musket Armies (Nov 28, 2022)

• Part 5: Napoleon’s Art of Warfare (Dec 6, 2022)

• Part 6: The Failure of Decisive Battle in the American Civil War (Dec 16, 2022)

• Part 7: The Moltke Mirage (Dec 31, 2022)

• Part 8: The Failure of Maneuver in the First World War (Jan 17, 2023)

• Part 9: World War 1: Groping for a Solution (Feb 2, 2023)

• Part 10: German Rebirth: Blitzkrieg (Feb 17, 2023)

• Part 11: Apocalypse: Operation Barbarossa (Mar 22, 2023)

• Part 12: The Troubled Beginnings of Soviet Operational Art (Apr 27, 2023)

• Part 13: Death Trap on the Volga: The Stalingrad Campaign (May 9, 2023)

• Part 14: Death Tango in the Dnieper Campaign (June 23, 2023)

• Part 15: Red Army Rising - Kursk and Beyond (July 11, 2023)

• Part 16: The Eagle has Landed: America Meets the Wehrmacht (Aug 2, 2023)

• Part 17: Götterdämmerung in the East (Aug 16, 2023)

• Part 18: Apex Predator - America in Normandy (Sep 26, 2023)

• Part 19: One Final Effort: Germany’s Last Battle (Oct 26, 2023)

• Part 20: Mechanized Stalinism (Dec 23, 2023)

• Part 21: Downfall: the Conquest of Germany (Jan 19, 2024)

• Part 22: Maneuver Theory in the Cold War (Mar 28, 2024)

• Part 23: Conclusion - Maneuver, Position, Attrition (Apr 26, 2024)

Military History: Naval Warfare

• Part 1: Blood on the Wine Dark Sea - the Great Aegean War

• Part 2: Mare Nostrum - Roman Naval Power

• Part 3: The Passing of the Age - The Battle of Lepanto

• Part 4: The Rise of Shot and Sail

• Part 5: France and the Tyrant of the Sea

• Part 6: The Apotheosis of Lord Nelson

• Part 7: Ironclad: Modernity at Sea

• Part 8: The Rise of the Dreadnought

Miscellaneous

• Politics by Other Means: Putin and Clausewitz (Oct 5, 2022)

• Three Regimes in Russia: Silent Revolution (Sep 26, 2022)

• The Soul of Battle (Nov 1, 2022)

• The End of Cabinet War (Dec 1, 2023)

• The Age of Zugzwang (Feb 13, 2024)

• NATO at the Crossroads (July 19, 2024)

• The Big Happening: Requiem for Assad’s Syria (December 23, 2024)