July 2010 – Sun Tzu’s Waterloo

IN THIS ISSUE

• Cover Feature – Sun Tzu’s Waterloo: how the ancient Chinese sage would rate Napoleon and Wellington’s historic clash.
  
• Crisis Watch – Brilliant Battlefield Innovations – they aren’t ours, by Ralph Peters
• Dispatches – real heroes, destinations, special events and more
• Forgotten History – The Scythes of Raclawice: Tadeusz Kosciusko’s improbable 1794 victory
  
• Great Warriors – English Longbowmen
  
• Hard Choices – Halsey at Leyte Gulf, 1944
  
• Battlefield Leader – Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
  
• Special Report: Picking Up the Pieces – ACG‘s exclusive report on Abu Ghraib
  
• Special Feature: War and Diplomacy  – From Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama

PLUS!

• Must-Read/Must-See Books and DVDs
  
• Game Reviews
• Test your decision-making skills with interactive features involving a Marine Sniper in Afghanistan; Bocage Busting in Normandy, 1944; and Japan’s Battle of Okinawa 1945 (read about the campaign featured in HBO’s The Pacific series, episode 9!)
• Play It! Play the history you read; ACG‘s list of recommended wargames for all eras
• Command Decision # 39: Bocage Busting! Normandy 1944
• Command Decision # 37: Rommel in World War I, 1917, Outcome and Analysis
• Mailbag
• Envelope Art
• ONLINE EXTRA: FREE PC GAME! Download March to Baghdad, Episode 1: Decision at Tallil Air Base
• ONLINE EXTRA: Wounded Warriors: Inspirational stories of two veterans who wouldn’t give up
• ONLINE EXTRA: The Last Stand – Book Review
  

PREVIEW OF SEPTEMBER 2010 ARMCHAIR GENERAL

• Ending World War II: Okinawa, Truman and the Atomic Bomb; based on D. M. Giangreco’s must-read new book, Hell to Pay
• Endgame Vietnam: South Vietnam’s Fall, 1975. The world’s best Vietnam War historian chronicles the South’s final struggle.
• Interactive command articles in which YOU make the decisions! Battle of the Bulge; Battle of Jerusalem, 1967; Rommel Against Crusader, 1941

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