The Captain's Cellar

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Reviews and reflections on cigars, spirits, and pipes — and the stories that go with them. | What the Cellar is The Captain’s Cellar is a slow room. The kind with a worn chair, a lamp going amber, and something honest in the glass. Here you’ll find reflections on military history and leadership, notes on cigars, spirits, and pipes, and the occasional essay that ties the three together. Nothing rushed. Nothing for the algorithm. Just the kind of writing that holds up when you read it twice. Who the Captain is I’m Cliff — called the Captain by habit. A military historian. I read primary sources when I can, footnote when the piece earns it, and believe the past is never as past as we’d like to pretend. Battles, campaigns, and the men who led them — what they got right, what they got wr

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