MTMcGurk
@mtmcgurk.bsky.social
IWI Fellow 2025. Views are my own and do not represent DoD or the Irregular Warfare Initiative.
Dad, Army Recruiter, aspiring historian, poet, #irregularwarfare, #writing #poet. #cats #LetsGoPens 🐧 #library #milsky
It’s a great day to recruit!
Dad, Army Recruiter, aspiring historian, poet, #irregularwarfare, #writing #poet. #cats #LetsGoPens 🐧 #library #milsky
It’s a great day to recruit!
26/2025 Truth to Tell: Notes from my White House Education by Lanny J Davis.
This was a “read a book outside of your comfort zone” pick. No idea how this ended up in my family. I felt a lot of anger reading this.
The advice is sound: just tell the truth and don’t hide it.
This was a “read a book outside of your comfort zone” pick. No idea how this ended up in my family. I felt a lot of anger reading this.
The advice is sound: just tell the truth and don’t hide it.
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
26/2025 Truth to Tell: Notes from my White House Education by Lanny J Davis.
This was a “read a book outside of your comfort zone” pick. No idea how this ended up in my family. I felt a lot of anger reading this.
The advice is sound: just tell the truth and don’t hide it.
This was a “read a book outside of your comfort zone” pick. No idea how this ended up in my family. I felt a lot of anger reading this.
The advice is sound: just tell the truth and don’t hide it.
25/2025 How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Mind blown 🤯 Zettelkasten method seems the way to go for me. I’ve already made slip box 🗃️ notes for this book and am seeing connections already.
So many connections to other things I’ve read. (That’s the point.)
Mind blown 🤯 Zettelkasten method seems the way to go for me. I’ve already made slip box 🗃️ notes for this book and am seeing connections already.
So many connections to other things I’ve read. (That’s the point.)
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
25/2025 How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Mind blown 🤯 Zettelkasten method seems the way to go for me. I’ve already made slip box 🗃️ notes for this book and am seeing connections already.
So many connections to other things I’ve read. (That’s the point.)
Mind blown 🤯 Zettelkasten method seems the way to go for me. I’ve already made slip box 🗃️ notes for this book and am seeing connections already.
So many connections to other things I’ve read. (That’s the point.)
Christmas came early.
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Christmas came early.
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Tortie club assemble!
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Tortie club assemble!
24/2025 Composite Nation by Frederick Douglass
This pamphlet is masterful in its conviction and power. They resonate in 2025, and his original speech was made in 1869. #America
This pamphlet is masterful in its conviction and power. They resonate in 2025, and his original speech was made in 1869. #America
October 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
24/2025 Composite Nation by Frederick Douglass
This pamphlet is masterful in its conviction and power. They resonate in 2025, and his original speech was made in 1869. #America
This pamphlet is masterful in its conviction and power. They resonate in 2025, and his original speech was made in 1869. #America
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Toddler: I wanna sing Mickey!
Me: *Starts singing “Come along and sing a song and join the jamboree.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E” (and other verses)
Mrs: How do you know that song again? 🤨🤔 you said you didn’t grow up watching anything Mickey Mouse…
Me: 😬
Me: *Starts singing “Come along and sing a song and join the jamboree.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E” (and other verses)
Mrs: How do you know that song again? 🤨🤔 you said you didn’t grow up watching anything Mickey Mouse…
Me: 😬
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Toddler: I wanna sing Mickey!
Me: *Starts singing “Come along and sing a song and join the jamboree.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E” (and other verses)
Mrs: How do you know that song again? 🤨🤔 you said you didn’t grow up watching anything Mickey Mouse…
Me: 😬
Me: *Starts singing “Come along and sing a song and join the jamboree.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E” (and other verses)
Mrs: How do you know that song again? 🤨🤔 you said you didn’t grow up watching anything Mickey Mouse…
Me: 😬
As with many things in history, it has lead me to this:
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
As with many things in history, it has lead me to this:
October 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tis the season 🏒 🥅 🚨
@dejankovacevic.bsky.social @fidgenewton.bsky.social @bobgrove91.bsky.social @pittsburghpenguins.bsky.social #NHL #hockey
@dejankovacevic.bsky.social @fidgenewton.bsky.social @bobgrove91.bsky.social @pittsburghpenguins.bsky.social #NHL #hockey
October 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A bookstore in Salt Lake City just got my business @charlesesdaile.bsky.social #histbookchat
Tag your Napoleonic Wars aficionados!
Tag your Napoleonic Wars aficionados!
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
A bookstore in Salt Lake City just got my business @charlesesdaile.bsky.social #histbookchat
Tag your Napoleonic Wars aficionados!
Tag your Napoleonic Wars aficionados!
“However, the spring of 1918 was a lunatic time and lunatic things kept happening.”
Richard Goldhurst with an absolute banger intro.
Richard Goldhurst with an absolute banger intro.
October 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“However, the spring of 1918 was a lunatic time and lunatic things kept happening.”
Richard Goldhurst with an absolute banger intro.
Richard Goldhurst with an absolute banger intro.
Oh you went full into it!
For fiction, the “Sharpe’s Rifles” series is great fun
For fiction, the “Sharpe’s Rifles” series is great fun
October 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Oh you went full into it!
For fiction, the “Sharpe’s Rifles” series is great fun
For fiction, the “Sharpe’s Rifles” series is great fun
Funny you mention that …@roninresearch.bsky.social @dienekes.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Funny you mention that …@roninresearch.bsky.social @dienekes.bsky.social
23/2025
The Splintered Empires by @dienekes.bsky.social, book 4 in the FWW Eastern Front series.
So many things I had no idea about: The German support to Finland’s “White Guards,” German amphib ops onto Estonian islands, the madness and uncertainty of the Russian revolution, the assault on Riga.
The Splintered Empires by @dienekes.bsky.social, book 4 in the FWW Eastern Front series.
So many things I had no idea about: The German support to Finland’s “White Guards,” German amphib ops onto Estonian islands, the madness and uncertainty of the Russian revolution, the assault on Riga.
October 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
23/2025
The Splintered Empires by @dienekes.bsky.social, book 4 in the FWW Eastern Front series.
So many things I had no idea about: The German support to Finland’s “White Guards,” German amphib ops onto Estonian islands, the madness and uncertainty of the Russian revolution, the assault on Riga.
The Splintered Empires by @dienekes.bsky.social, book 4 in the FWW Eastern Front series.
So many things I had no idea about: The German support to Finland’s “White Guards,” German amphib ops onto Estonian islands, the madness and uncertainty of the Russian revolution, the assault on Riga.
@dansukman.bsky.social @queenofthinair.bsky.social @hoosierhomer.bsky.social
@craigwhiteside.bsky.social @jkdemp.bsky.social
#Histbookchat #milsky
What is everyone reading this weekend?
@craigwhiteside.bsky.social @jkdemp.bsky.social
#Histbookchat #milsky
What is everyone reading this weekend?
September 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@dansukman.bsky.social @queenofthinair.bsky.social @hoosierhomer.bsky.social
@craigwhiteside.bsky.social @jkdemp.bsky.social
#Histbookchat #milsky
What is everyone reading this weekend?
@craigwhiteside.bsky.social @jkdemp.bsky.social
#Histbookchat #milsky
What is everyone reading this weekend?
That’s an excellent way to spend a sick day.
Pepper wants the same.
Pepper wants the same.
September 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
That’s an excellent way to spend a sick day.
Pepper wants the same.
Pepper wants the same.
Yeah that’s a great view to start the run.
September 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yeah that’s a great view to start the run.
Working my way through these! I started with The German Way of War.
September 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Working my way through these! I started with The German Way of War.
22/2025 The Path to Blitzkrieg by Robert M. Citino
#HistbookChat
Illuminating read into the creativity, thought, and relentless training of the post-FWW German Army. They didn’t rest on their laurels. He makes a compelling argument that rearmament was a Weimar phenomenon; the Army played its part.
#HistbookChat
Illuminating read into the creativity, thought, and relentless training of the post-FWW German Army. They didn’t rest on their laurels. He makes a compelling argument that rearmament was a Weimar phenomenon; the Army played its part.
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
22/2025 The Path to Blitzkrieg by Robert M. Citino
#HistbookChat
Illuminating read into the creativity, thought, and relentless training of the post-FWW German Army. They didn’t rest on their laurels. He makes a compelling argument that rearmament was a Weimar phenomenon; the Army played its part.
#HistbookChat
Illuminating read into the creativity, thought, and relentless training of the post-FWW German Army. They didn’t rest on their laurels. He makes a compelling argument that rearmament was a Weimar phenomenon; the Army played its part.
21/2025 The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
I’ve been at Fort Bragg twice.
Unfortunately, some of this is familiar. A lot of it is new. “Troubled” is an understatement.
Read this and read the SOCOM ethics review below and make your own assessment.
Sources / footnotes / endnotes would have helped
I’ve been at Fort Bragg twice.
Unfortunately, some of this is familiar. A lot of it is new. “Troubled” is an understatement.
Read this and read the SOCOM ethics review below and make your own assessment.
Sources / footnotes / endnotes would have helped
September 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
21/2025 The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
I’ve been at Fort Bragg twice.
Unfortunately, some of this is familiar. A lot of it is new. “Troubled” is an understatement.
Read this and read the SOCOM ethics review below and make your own assessment.
Sources / footnotes / endnotes would have helped
I’ve been at Fort Bragg twice.
Unfortunately, some of this is familiar. A lot of it is new. “Troubled” is an understatement.
Read this and read the SOCOM ethics review below and make your own assessment.
Sources / footnotes / endnotes would have helped