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Michael Joseph McDonough
1877–1921
A career U.S. Army officer, he is remembered in print for co-authoring an early 20th-century manual on troop leadership and field operations. His work speaks to a practical, professional approach to military training at a time of rapid change in modern warfare.
1 Audiobook
Technique of modern tactics
by P. S. (Paul Stanley) Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough
About the author
Born in 1877, Michael Joseph McDonough belonged to the generation of American officers whose careers unfolded in the years before and during the First World War. The clearest surviving record of his writing is Technique of Modern Tactics, a military study he co-authored with P. S. Bond and published in the early 1910s.
That book focuses on troop leading, field problems, and the coordination of different arms in action, which suggests a writer deeply engaged with the practical side of soldiering rather than literary fame. For listeners interested in military history, his work offers a window into how professional officers of his era thought about preparation, decision-making, and modern command.
McDonough died in 1921. Although biographical information about him is limited in the sources readily available online, his published work has endured as a useful historical document from a formative period in American military thought.