U.S. Army Lt. Col. Pat Proctor offers a unique “boots on the ground” perspective from his recent deployment to Afghanistan with 1st Infantry Division. This is part two of his new “Reports from Afghanistan” series.

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

Tactics 101, the continuing Armchair General series, assesses Heavy-Light Operations,the integration of heavy and light forces on the battlefield.

Boer descendant Deetlefs du Toit, a member of South Africa’s parliament, enhances and expands on two articles from the July 2012 issue of Armchair General with a wealth of additional information about the Boer Wars in part 1 of a 2-part series.

Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., is known as the ‘Father of the U.S. Armored Forces’ because of his leadership, expertise in organizational maneuvers, and grasp of doctrine, as well as an ability to clearly articulate his vision for an independent armored force.

Author and historian Carlo D’Este recalls the day he heard that President Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945.

The Rubis, a Saphir-class submarine of the Free Free Navy, found itself with a torpedo stuck in one tube, malfunctioning ballast tanks and leaking batteries, in the middle of a German minefield.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Pat Proctor offers a unique “boots on the ground” perspective from his recent deployment to Afghanistan with 1st Infantry Division. This is part one of his new “Reports from Afghanistan” series.

This month Tactics 101, the continuing monthly series from Armchair General, looks at the three key elements of reconnaissance and surveillance planning.

You know life is rough when you welcome British food. But Captain Alfred Seebohm, commander of the German Afrika Korps’ 621st Radio Intercept Company, traded for cans of bully beef whenever he could. His focus in life was British military …

The 70th installment of Tactics 101, the continuing monthly series from Armchair General, looks at the basics of reconnaissance, the first in a series of recon articles.

Armchair General Advisory Board member Ralph Peters testifies to Congress and explains what YOU really need to know about Pakistan.

The fall of Singapore, the supposedly impregnable fortress, to Imperial Japanese forces in 1942 was possibly the worst defeat of British arms in history; was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to blame?

Author and historian Carlo D’Este examines what a difference someone like Winston Churchill might make in dealing with these difficult times.

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.