New books are here! Ski, Climb, Fight from @OUPress is now available at @Longleafserv or the bookseller of your choice. @SMH_Historians @SWWresearch @SWWResearchNA

First academic review of Ski, Climb, Fight is in, in the Journal of Military History! Pleased to say it is pretty positive. The reviewer grasped that I was aiming for a larger, mountain warfare, context beyond just the WW 2 division. The reviewer also accurately pointed out a

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RT @USNorthernCmd: Gen Gregory Guillot, Commander, @NORADCommand and #usnorthcom , and his staff conducted leader engagements and a site s….

22 June 1940, Col d’Enclave, French Alps. The Italians had attacked two days ago in blowing snow and near- near -0°F temps. Lieutenant Jean Bulle’s Section d'Éclaireurs-Skieurs (SES) of the 80th Alpine Fortress Battalion had had orders to withdraw to the main position of

Thanks to Mary Shinn of @csgazette for this story on Ski, Climb, Fight!. NORAD and Northern Command historian pens 10th Mountain Division and mountain warfare history via @csgazette.

Thanks to Mary Shinn @csgazette for including mountain warfare training in her story on Fort Carson (and mentioning Ski, Climb, Fight!) . Fort Carson's history: From training heroes to housing POWs via @csgazette.

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My thanks to @smallwars for hosting my piece on #mountainwarfare. @10MTNDIV @11thAirborneDiv @NWTC @natomwcoe .

Had some fascinating exchanges last week about the rock climbing the 10th Mountain Division and its predecessor the Mountain Training Center carried out at Camp Hale, Colorado and back east in the West Virginia Maneuver Area, especially at Seneca Rocks. In Ski, Climb, Fight I

One of the interesting things I learned writing Ski, Climb, Fight (link in comments) is that, since the civilian skiing and mountaineering community generally has better skills and gear, militaries must adapt those to #mountainwarfare use. This was certainly true with what has

Much obliged to the readers of the @SWWResearchNA for their comments and questions on my current #mountainwarfare efforts. An excellent experience, great help, and highly recommended if you are doing a SWW project.

Wanted to bring to your #mountainwarfare attention that the US Army Quartermaster Museum has been putting some WWII equipment specifications online. The Ski and Mountain specs are here: . They include a ski bench, ski bindings (mountan and xc), skis,

RT @SWWResearchNA: Our last reading group of 2025 (!!) is Wednesday, 7 May 2025 @ 7:30pm Eastern, with Lance Blyth (@mtn_war)(USAFA), on hi….

Following the 1970 mountaineering equipment meeting, the US Army Natick Labs requested the Arctic Institute of North America carry out tests and evaluations “of certain commercially available mountaineering equipment, considered by the project investigator [Joseph LaBelle] to be

By the end of the 1960s, except for Alaska-based units, the US military ceased to train for #mountainwarfare. But the growing obsolescence of all the 1940s and 50s-era gear caught the attention of the Army’s Natick Labs, today @PEOSoldier, which now had responsibility for such

After the Army closed the Mountain and Cold Weather Training Command at Fort Carson in 1957, ending mountain training in the lower 48 that had gone on since 1942, the mission transferred to the Arctic Indoctrination School in Alaska, renamed the Cold Weather & Mountain School.

Great time talking with the World War II Foundation's podcast about _Ski, Climb, Fight_!. Check it out: @SWWResearchNA #mountainwarfare