An overview of Noncombatant Evacuation Operations, or NEO, is covered in this installment of Tactics 101, a continuing monthly series on Armchair General.

This article focuses on Japanese intelligence service successes during World War II, including the amazingly simple method they employed to break US Army Air Force (USAAF) codes that were used in Burma and China.

Spectacular Allied intelligence breakthroughs in WWII have overshadowed Axis intel successes. German successes are examined in this first part of a two-part series about Axis intelligence operations.

Ralph Peters analyzes President Obama’s recently announced new defense plan and its ramifications on the future of U.S. security.

This is the second installment of Neal Creighton’s Journey To Obsolescence: The Army Air Corps Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) Branch 1917 – 1937.

Armchair General’s continuing monthly series Tactics 101 examines task organization, one of the most important actions during the planning process.

Fifty-year-old James Rumley kept a diary of life in Beaufort, North Carolina, during its occupation by Union troops in the Civil War, 1862 – 1865.

Donald D. Blackburn formed a guerrilla force in the Philippines to harass the Japanese occupiers. Years later, he spearheaded Operation White Star in Laos and planned the Son Tay rescue mission.

Timely decisions are critical on the battlefield. This month’s installment of Tactics 101 explains how the Decision Support Template can help commanders make timely and anticipated decisions.

Author Ralph Peters examines how the recent loss of an RQ 170 Spy Drone in Iran is a possible game-changer for the U.S. and its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Fleet.

India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru misjudged both his nation’s military capability and the determination of China’s premier Zhou Enlai, precipitating the Sino-Indian War of 1962.

This installment of Armchair General’s monthly series Tactics 101 focuses on the matrix form–style for writing an operations order.

Author Ralph Peters examines the global consequences of an Israeli attack against Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities in this Armchair General exclusive.

This is the first part of a three-part series on the U.S. Army Air Corps Lighter-Than-Air Branch by retired Maj. Gen. Neal Creighton.

Tactics 101, the continuing monthly series, looks at part two of rehearsals for military actions.

Strategist Ralph Peters examines what he calls the “‘big five’ terror-age lies we hear repeated endlessly.”