Tactics 101: 026. Cordon and Search Operations
Share your thoughts about Tactics 101's lesson on cordon and search operations, a deadly game of hide and seek.
Read MoreGeneral David Petraeus’ testimony
These are the visual aids Gen. David Petraeus used in his April 2008 testimony before Congress. We present them for your information and discussion.
Read MoreThe Roots of Dreadnought
HMS Dreadnought underway in 1906. Courtesy U.S. Naval Historical Center. One of the great tipping points in world history occurred around 1500 when the “full-rigged” sailing ship—armed with cannons, propelled by banks of sails, and capable of surmounting oceanic storms—arose along the Atlantic coast of Europe. This vessel superseded the oar-pulled galley, developed in the ancient Mediterranean. The galley was dangerously inadequate in the turbulent waters of the Atlantic. The sailing ship reached its culmination in two wooden men o’ war perfected in the first half of the eighteenth century: the “ship of the line,” carrying from 64 to 100 guns on two or three decks, and the lighter, faster frigate, carrying 26 guns on a single deck. The HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar by J. M. W. Turner. Courtesy Library of Congress. These ships possessed a fine balance between the weight of the guns relative to the size of the hull. Wooden sailing ships ruled the seas for three-and-a-half centuries. Some vessels were larger...
Read MoreTactics 101: 025. Urban Operations: Truisms and Nuggets
“The Thebans immediately closed up ranks to repel all attacks on them. Twice or thrice they beat back their assailants. But the Plataen men shouted and charged them, the women and slaves screamed and yelled from the houses and pelted them with stones and tiles; besides, it had been raining hard all night, and so at last their courage gave way and they turned and fled through the city. Most of the Theban fugitives were quite ignorant of the right way out, and this, with the mud and the darkness, and the fact that their pursuers knew their way about and could easily stop their escape, proved fatal to many.” – Thucydides’ description of Theban troops in the city of Plataea The urban warfare experience has been consistent through the years. The cities are famous: Stalingrad, Berlin, Aachen, Hue, Al Fallujah. Each consumed companies and battalions, some swallowed up divisions and corps, while the worst devoured while armies. The city is not the army’s friend. It’s best to avoid...
Read MoreArmchair General War College Begins
Help us determine the starting curriculum for ACG Online's newest feature
Read More1968 Tet Offensive Remembered
In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the 1968 Tet Offensive, publisher ABC-CLIO is featuring essays on this watershed event during the Vietnam War.
Read MorePanzers Found in Norway
To accompany the latest issue of ACG, we provide some additional information on three Panzers found in Norway - that fought at the battle of Kursk!
Read MoreMessines and Memory
Millions paid the ultimate price, both in Flanders and elsewhere on the Western Front, for the failure of pre-1914 European diplomacy.
Read MoreBackwater Battles: Unknown Campaigns of the First World War
World War I, though sometimes thought of solely as a long, protracted struggle between monstrous armies sitting in trenches, was more than simply a huge slug-fest in Europe.
Read MoreAustralian war veterans demand apology
Australian war veterans demand apology – Telegraph.co.uk “Australian war veterans demanded an apology from the historian Sir Max Hastings yesterday after claiming that his new book portrays their fellow soldiers as too cowardly to fight the Japanese towards the end of the Second World...
Read MoreThe Goguryeo-Sui Wars
The wars between the Chinese Sui Dynasty and the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo were some of the greatest conflicts of their time.
Read MoreOperation Market Garden – Part 2
As in all desperate situations, the courage and tenacity of the human will was demonstrated time and again.
Read MoreStonewall Jackson: Triumphant in Defeat
While many students of history are able to recall Jackson's major accomplishments at places like First Bull Run, Second Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg, perhaps it is time to recognize where much of his legend began.
Read MoreDetachment 101: The OSS In Burma
It fell to a clandestine operation created by America's OSS, code-named Detachment 101, to begin the long struggle to regain Burma.
Read MoreOperation Market Garden – Part 1
At the beginning of September 1944, the German forces were reeling from the Allied onslaught. An orderly retreat had turned into chaos.
Read MoreWeapon Files – The Longbow
We take an insider's look at the weapon that ended the mounted knight's reign!
Read MoreCommander Dossier: Henry V
Explore the Commander Dossier for Henry V - England's "fighting king" and a master of medieval warfare.
Read MoreTet With Tanks – The NVA Easter Offensive, 1972
As a special bonus to complement the articles in our magazine and to expand our coverage of the Vietnam War, we present Frederick Lash's compelling account of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) Easter Offensive.
Read MoreProkhorovka: The Deciding Battle of Kursk
Kursk would mark the end of the great German offensives. It would also signal the beginning of the Russian recovery of its land and its dignity. And no one could tell a soldier of the Motherland that revenge is a dish served cold.
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