Troy Vincent, former All-Pro player and now NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations, spends time visiting wounded soldiers during a recent trip to Germany with the USO.
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Battleground Art combines collecting toy soldiers and building plastic military models to create hybrid hobby that encompasses the best of both worlds.
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July 2014 issue features Carlo D' Este's on The Longest Day 70th anniversary, as well as stories on the 21st Panzer Division, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, and the Battle of Golan Heights 1973. Issue is on newsstands now!
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This CDG places readers in the role of Captain Meir Zamir, as YOU lead an Israeli tank company facing a powerful Syrian attack.
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This is the solution to the Combat Decision Game “Anglo-Egyptian War, 1882” that was presented in the May 2013 issue of Armchair General® magazine.
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This interview with General Frank J. Grass, who became Chief of the National Guard Bureau in 2012, is particularly timely and extremely enlightening given the difficult budget choices now facing the Department of Defense.
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The May 2014 Armchair General magazine looks at South Vietnamese troops in 1971 invasion of Laos, plus: Heroism in Korea 1950; Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kan.; interactive articles on Normandy 1944, Anglo-Egyptian War 1882, and Malaya 1941-42
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Additional letters to the editor from the May 2014 Issue of Armchair General.
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Combat Decision Game No. 62 places readers in the role of Lt. Gen. Garnet Wolseley, leading British troops in an attack to decide the fate of Egypt in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
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This is the solution to the Combat Decision Game “Japanese Defense of Nomonhan, 1939” that was presented in the March 2013 issue of Armchair General® magazine.
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The staff of Armchair General magazine, now in its 10th year, wants readers to tell us - what have been some of your favorite Armchair General articles over the years?
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The March 2014 Armchair General magazine looks at what to expect in Afghanistan after US troops leave; the career of "Panzer Baron" Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel; the 1864 Battle of New Market; the origins of the modern combat helmet, and more.
Read MoreThis Combat Decision Game places you in the role of Japanese Major Tomiji Kajikawa, a battalion commander in the Kwantung Army. Defend against an attack by a strong Soviet infantry and tank force and then move on to capture Nomonhan.
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Additional letters to the editor from the March 2014 Issue of Armchair General.
Read MoreThe January 2014 issue of Armchair General® presented the Combat Decision Game “French Foreign Legion in Mexico, 1863.” This CDG placed readers in the role of Captain Jean Danjou, commander of the French Foreign Legion’s 3d Company, 1st Battalion, which was part of an army that France’s Emperor Napoleon III sent to seize control of Mexico. The Mexican republic, however, fiercely resisted this blatant aggression by the much stronger European power. Indeed, Mexican forces defeated the first French attempt to capture the capital, Mexico City, at the May 5, 1862, Battle of Puebla. Yet Napoleon III persevered in his campaign to conquer Mexico and sent troop reinforcements beginning in September. On March 16, 1863, in another attempt to capture Mexico City, a French army began a siege of Puebla. However, it was operating at the end of a long and tenuous supply line extending through hostile Mexican countryside back to the main French base at Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico coast. To protect French supply convoys from attacks...
Read MoreIn Armchair General magazine Jan. 2014: British attacks on Dwight Eisenhower; Vietnamese combat artists; Texas Revolution; Pete Dawkins interview; plus interactive articles on Soviets in Afghanistan, French Foreign Legion, and American Revolution
Read MoreArmchair General magazine challenges you to find the best solution for a battalion of French Foreign Legionnaires facing 800 Mexican cavalry near Camerone, Mexico, in 1863, in this interactive Combat Decision Game.
Read MoreThese are the left over letters to the editor from the January 2014 Issue of Armchair General.
Read MoreThe November 2013 Armchair General magazine features "Hitler Takes Command," how the Fuhrer won the contest with Germany's General Staff to take control of military. Plus, Siege of Jerusalem 70 AD, Honey Springs 1863, and more.
Read MoreIn this decision-making game you must choose the best course of action for a Polish motorized rifle battalion attempting to seize the French town of Chambois and close the Falaise Gap in August 1944.
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