January 2008 Mailbag
Presenting a roundup of letters to accompany the January 2008 issue of ACG!
Read MorePresenting a roundup of letters to accompany the January 2008 issue of ACG!
Read MoreLinks to match the stories in the January 2008 (Guderian) issue.
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreLead a squad of Canadian soldiers as they attempt to capture a German trench during the Battle of Vimy Ridge!
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreI am curious; in the INTERACTIVE section of your magazine, where readers must decide on the outcome of several different scenarios, at what point do you insert fiction into factual events?
Read MoreI have been a reader of your magazine since the beginning and in that time I am constantly disappointed that as a military history magazine with professional writers you and your writers continue to refer to the American War of Independence as the Revolutionary War.
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreRobert Allen10th Mountain Division The key to a successful raid is simple plan that incorporates speed, surprise and violence of action. Using the vehicles and their mounted weapons provides both speed and firepower. The best solution is COA #2 with one modification. Approaching from the west, the heavy group’s weapons will easily cut through the wooden buildings, killing or incapacitating the occupants and preventing them from interfering with the demolition team. Approaching from the north, the light group can break through the gates (the weakest point of the fence), use the hard packed road for a speedy attack and withdrawal, and cross the shortest possible distance to the communications equipment from outside of the fence. Approaching from the north also prevents the light group from advancing into the supporting fires of the heavy group. The light group’s machine guns can establish a local support by fire position ensuring the demo team can set the charges without Iraqi interference. William AllredRichardson, TX COA 2 is the only COA that effectively...
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreFind out what games you can play to experience the articles in the latest issue of the magazine!
Read MoreArmchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreArmchair General is proud to host this month’s edition of the Military History Carnival! Although our site is not a blog in the perfect sense, we are glad and thankful to host and share content from all our fellow military historians across the Internet. So, generals, settle yourselves into your favorite armchairs and let the military history reading commence! Military History Leading us off this month in general military history topics is a recent post at the Official Osprey Publishing Blog asking Why study military history?, closely followed by More on Military History and Conservative Scholars, a post over at Historicus which ponders much the same question from within the educational realm. In a case of Measuring the Glass Half Full, the Russian Front blog takes on and discounts the belief about "the shrinking pool of true military historians". Mark Stoneman is a European history teacher and pens the Clio and Me blog, and his latest post describes his Stumbling Upon a Dissertation Topic. The Strange Maps blog has...
Read MoreLongbows, Orcs, Zombies and TIE Fighters all featured during our recent visit to the Gen Con UK Convention - read our photo report and enter our prize draw!
Read MoreCarrying a "pig" through the bush was hard work, but the weapon was worth its weight in gold in Hue's "urban jungle".
Read MoreACG recently interviewed the best-selling author who has collaborated with Ken Burns on some of the most interesting and insightful documentary films ever made.
Read MoreLinks to match the stories in the November 2007 (Lawrence of Arabia) issue.
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