Welcome to WebOps, Armchair General’s first website column! Here you’ll find an array of links relative to military history news, articles, websites, and more. What does a food machinery corporation have to do with military history? Looking for the next Antony Beevor book? Shall we play a game? Find out the answers and more in this weeks’ headlines. Clicks away!
News
The U.S. Air Force has finally joined the rest of the American Armed Forces with the recent dedication of the $30 million Air Force Memorial.
This post over on The History Channel forums brings news of the finding of an authentic letter that details an account of the "famous Christmas Day truce of 1914 when guns fell silent along the Western Front".
Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, the Cold War era strategic war room made famous to many of us in the 1983 movie "War Games", is closing down major operations and being put on ‘standby’ mode. Think there’s time for one more game of chess?
The Napoleonic Wars is the theme of the inaugural Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History, scheduled for November 3 & 4 on the campus of High Point University in High Point, North Carolina.
Two U.S. Douglas Torpedo Bomber Devastators (TBDs), sunken off the Marshall Islands since World War II, are being surveyed for future hopes of recovery.
Bronx, New York native Capt. Joseph O’Brien is receiving the Navy Cross for his actions while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
This story hearkens back to the day when castle builders created their fortresses almost by hand, using only very basic tools. did you know one of those years included 1996? That’s when Michel Guyot began building his very own castle near Triegny, France.
"Archaeologists found the remains of a ship from the Viking Age on Tuesday, in a burial mound on a farm outside the coastal city of Larvik." Just another reason I should’ve become an archaeologist.
The mystery of what to the HMAS Sydney II in November 1941 seems to be as deep as the ocean that probably claimed her with the finding of this possible new clue.
Gurmeet Kanwal, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, earlier posted this article rebutting the military historical account of ‘Operation Badr’, written by General Pervez Musharraf in his book, "In the Line of Fire".
Max Boot penned this next article, where he claims and explains the what and why about four "major shifts in military tactics and technology since 1500".
This next article lays out the case for why the old Food Machinery Corporation should have it’s own museum. Hold on, there is military history in here, there is!
"South Shore Military History Roundtable will present a Southeastern Massachusetts Military History Symposium on the USS Massachusetts at Battleship Cove in Fall River Saturday, Oct. 28, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m."
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