author
Michael Joseph McDonough
1877–1921
A career Army officer as well as a co-author of military nonfiction, he helped shape an early 20th-century guide to troop leadership and field operations. His best-known surviving work, written with P. S. Bond, reflects the practical, instructional tone of a man steeped in military service.
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Technique of modern tactics
by P. S. (Paul Stanley) Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough
About the author
Born in 1877, Michael Joseph McDonough is identified in library and public-domain book records as the co-author of Technique of Modern Tactics, a military manual published in the 1910s with P. S. Bond. The book focuses on troop-leading methods and operations of mixed detachments, and it remains the main work by which he is remembered today.
A memorial record for McDonough describes him as a member of the United States Military Academy class of 1899 and a retired Army officer. That same record says he died in 1921 at Fitzsimons General Hospital in Aurora, Colorado, at age 44.
While biographical details about his personal life are limited in the sources available here, his surviving publication suggests a writer concerned with clear instruction, planning, and practical military leadership. For readers interested in military history, his work offers a window into how American officers studied tactics in the years before modern mechanized warfare fully took shape.