About Tactics notes

Tactics notes is a special operations tactics and fieldcraft knowledge base. It digests open US doctrine (Army, Joint, ARSOF), detachment-level planning manuals, and original tradecraft into a graph of linked reference notes.

It sits beside Intelligence notes inside the VMBRARIVM monorepo:

• Intelligence notes maps actors, crises, systems, and strategic concepts.
• Tactics notes documents how forces plan, reconnoiter, target, influence, protect, and sustain at the detachment and small-unit echelon.

Method

1. Source - public doctrine stubs and full texts in the private doctrine archive; original tradecraft where no open pub exists.
2. Digest - one concept per note; cite the pub and edition; keep mechanics usable at the echelon the note claims.
3. Structure - twelve top-level sections with nested categories (intelligence-garden pattern).
4. Density - concept notes carry definition, doctrinal framework, mechanics, application, cases when known, related concepts, and failure modes.
5. Publish - this tree ships on the public Quartz garden next to the intelligence wiki.

What is out of scope

• Classified or CAC-only material
• Client, principal, or engagement identifiers
• Wholesale republication of full manuals
• Platform content series (posts, threads, carousels) - those distill from this garden elsewhere

Relationship to the doctrine archive

Full converted manuals live outside this repo at the private AODA doctrine shelf (00-orientation through 10-systems). Doctrine Sources maps shelves to sections. Notes cite designators; they do not mirror .full.md files.

Navigation

• Search for a framework or TTP name.
• Follow wikilinks.
• Use section MOCs on the home page.
• Use the graph view to see how planning, recon, targeting, and influence connect.