Far behind enemy lines, armed only with light weapons, engaged in reconaissance, snatching POWs, marking targets for airstrikes and a host of other high-priority and very hazardous missions. For the men of the Studies and Observation Group (SOG), these tasks were all in a day’s work.
Read MoreThe 1918 flu was deadliest for young adults ages twenty to forty, killing not only the weak, but also the strongest in the population.
Read MoreIn “First Inâ€, veteran and highly decorated CIA officer Gary Schroen gives a blow-by-blow account of the CIA’s infiltration into northeast Afghanistan to support the Northern Alliance campaign against the Taliban and foreign Arab forces around Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif.
Read MoreThe editors have performed a great service, not only to the men of the 736th and their families, but also to Americans hungering for tales of the men of the “Greatest Generationâ€. According to one report, America is losing approximately 1000 World War II veterans every day. For every one of these men who dies without recording his service for posterity, America loses a vital part of its history.
Read MoreShedding Light on a much-neglected theater of the Pacific War, Mr. Gailey blends a wealth of operational and organizational information with compelling narratives of the rigors and hazards of jungle warfare fought amongst the ravines and mountain ridges of New Guinea and its smaller neighboring islands.
Read MoreArmchair General reviews Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WWII’s OSS, by Patrick O’Donnell.
Read More‘Deep Battle requires the first echelon – mainly infantry – directly supported by tanks and artillery to contact the enemy frontage, fixing them in place and preventing reaction to the second echelon – mostly tanks – attacking on a narrow frontage, creating a breakthrough.’
‘Among the comments heard at French military HQ in Hanoi was that Giap ‘was an NCO learning to handle regiments.’ The leadership were contemptuous of NLF/VM mobility and logistics. Giap’s staff officers believe that battle must be joined at Dien Bien Phu, but are uncertain how to provoke the French in an attack.’
‘Leonidas, with a force of 7000, most of them helots, defended the pass at Thermopylae, allowing the other troops more time to prepare. Xerxes marched on, arrogantly, not believing so small a force would oppose him. Leonidas knew, though, that the pass was so narrow that Persian numbers would be negated. For two days, Leonidas and the Spartans blocked the pass, inflicting grievous losses on the tributary forces of Xerxes. ‘
An Amrchair General Book Review, examining the purge of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, in Hitler’s Nazi Regime.
Read MoreLearn what it takes to be an interrogator in the modern US military.
Read MoreTravel back in time with Armchair General and learn about the Huns, and their infamous King, Attila!
Read MoreAn Armchair General book review of Al Qaeda’s Great Escape.
Read MoreLearn about the men and women who defied the Soviet blockade to help the people of Berlin.
Read MoreLearn about the history behind one of the most dramatic geo-political splits in modern history, creating polar opposite nations of North and South Korea.
Read MoreGuest contributor Steven McWilliams takes a look at Command and Leadership in this essay.
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