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Posted on Oct 8, 2007 in Armchair Reading

Fiction into factual events?

I 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?

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Posted on Oct 8, 2007 in Armchair Reading

A question that I have

I 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.

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Posted on Oct 3, 2007 in Armchair Reading

CDG Solution Winners #22: Scud Busting in Iraq

Robert 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...

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Posted on Sep 16, 2007 in Armchair Reading, Front Page Features

Military History Carnival #6 (Sep 2007)

Armchair 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...

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