The Incorrect Art of War [Episode 15] – Project Bucephalus
What's Doctor Sinister's greatest secret? Dare you enter Security Control Pit 174A to find out?
Read MorePosted on Feb 10, 2006 in Armchair Reading, Front Page Features, TIAOW
The First Battle Of Bull Run, An American Rubicon
Any well-traveled Historian will tell you: there is an immense sense of power that one feels when one literally stands in the footsteps of the few great men who actually have changed the course of History.
Read MoreAvoiding the Trap – Kirovograd, USSR, 6th January 1944
The Soviet High Command had an ambitious plan that called for a series of attacks intended to breach the Dniepr Line, isolate the Crimea and hopefully trap Four German armies.
Read MoreWarthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War – Book Review
Flying is an inherently dangerous business. Flying for the military is even more dangerous than civilian flying due to the fact that you have people trying to actively shoot you down.
Read MoreThe Lost Photographs of the Star of Africa
Have you ever possessed an item of militaria and pondered on the history that may lay behind it? Have you ever considered who might originally have owned it and where that person could be now? Well, these are just some of the many the questions that ran through the head of one of our readers and wife’s grandfather; an 86 year-old Canadian World War 2 Veteran who, after more than 60 years, put to rest just such a mystery with the help of Armchair General on the internet…and some blind luck.
Read MoreBattles of Alexander – Boardgame Review
...as I picked the new version of Deluxe Alexander up off the shelf, I had to wonder: After the changes made to the game system in such recent games as Devil's Horsemen, could a re-release of the original game in the Great Battles series stand up? Or was I, like many hex-based wargamers, simply living in the nostalgic past?
Read MoreMilitaria ’06
It's already show-season in the UK! Join Armchair General as we browse the stalls at this year's militaria trade fair and see what bargains we can find...
Read MoreWeb Links for the January 2006 Issue
Prepare for WebOps! This month's column ties in with Armchair General's Chester W. Nimitz issue (January 2006, Volume II, No. 6).
Read MoreRobert’s Ridge – Book Review
This story should be made into a movie. Not because it is exciting, or gripping, or powerful, or realistic. It is certainly all of those things, and a real page-turner in book form. Instead, this story needs to find a mass media outlet so that the man on the street knows what allied armed forces are going through in the wastelands of the War on Terror.
Read MoreMarch 2006 Issue: Ulysses S Grant
All new for 2006, we have taken your suggestions and made the magazine even better. Not only do we have features on the future of warfare in the 21st Century, interactive battles set in the Civil War, and a piece on Hitler's Blunders...but now the magazine looks as smooth as it reads! See it Feb. 1st.
Read MoreThe Rogue’s March – Book Review
The Mexican-American War saw the United States in the grips of both xenophobia and a fear and loathing of the Catholic Church. Both of these factors came together to create one of the world’s most unique military organization: The Saint Patrick’s Battalion of the Mexican Army.
Read MoreIke: World War II’s Indispensable General, Part 2
With Ike it was all about relationships and none was more important that his association with Winston Churchill. Two more diverse personalities could hardly be imagined, but together, their friendship became the foundation of the alliance, and, with Roosevelt's declining health, the glue that held it together.
Read MoreThe Flying Circus: Pacific War -1943- As Seen Through A Bombsight – Book Review
War has been described as 90 percent boredom and 10 percent terror, and the war for Jim was no different. What did stand out for Jim were not the rigors of combat, but the deliberate brutality of the Japanese.
Read MoreUFO: Aftershock – Game Review (PC)
Do you have what it takes to reclaim Earth for humanity? Is it even worth bothering to try? Can UFO: Aftershock survive the obvious comparisons to the X-Com games?
Read MoreThe Dead of Winter – Book Review
The Dead of the Winter is an outstanding book that is a highly recommended read. Future readers will admire the sacrifices of those soldiers who died in the Ardennes.
Read MoreThe Incorrect Art of War [Episode 14] – Now you Tree Me, Now You Don’t
Invisible troops? A platoon of Tree Surgeons? Find out what's going on with Doctor Sinister's latest insane plan for world domination.
Read MoreBattles in Italy – Game Review (PC)
Battles in Italy recreates the Italian battles faithfully but does so in an extremely accessible manner. The situations are fascinating and well-balanced. This game represents a significant advance in a fine series.
Read MoreCarriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea – Book Review
Hearn could well be that uncle of yours back from a life at sea as he masterfully puts a face on each character that moved the Aircraft Carrier into the prominence it enjoys today.
Read MoreDesert Knights – An Overview of the War in North Africa
Erwin Rommel, renowned German general of the Second World War envisioned the desert as a great ocean. His tanks like ships on that open sea. He saw his tanks as battleships controlling that sea, and they were the important thing in his mind.
Read MoreRevisiting Nelson and Trafalgar
Now that 200 years have passed on one of the most famous naval battles that ever took place in history, it’s time to look back and try to get a fresh look upon it. What made this battle so special?
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