Vietnam: Years of Glory and Grief
A new millennium has put the war in Vietnam even more into the category of the distant past. Forty years separate us from those troubled times.
Read MoreSilent Heroes – Game Review (PC)
Silent Heroes is a veritable minefield of RTS gaming, with safe and unsafe areas to tread. Is it worth crossing? Well, ACG has. Report here for a full debriefing!
Read MoreLessons from Centralia
Soldiers on their way to fight tough, determined guerrillas (Al Quaeda, Taliban and sectarian terrorists) in Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving valuable “lessons learned†from the US Army’s Staff Ride battle study program.
Read MoreACG WebOps (29 October – 4 November 2006)
Armchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreWar Galley – Boardgame Review
War Galley is the seventh volume in the multi-award winning Great Battles of History (GBoH) series, but the first to venture entirely into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the first historical boardgame published, in two decades, to address galley warfare.
Read MoreLetters From Iraq 4: Fobbits!
Those that live on COB's or FOB's are known as FOBBITS. Like Hobbits, true Fobbits live in buildings protected by dirt. J.R.R. Tolkien is probably in heaven smiling.
Read MoreTactics 101: 009. The Reserve
In part eight of our series, we discuss the importance of a reserve to maintain flexibility on the battlefield.
Read MoreThe Practical Art of Moving Armies – On the Computer Screen
Think supply and logistics is a drag? This former logistician illustrates how some games bring this craft to life, and keep it exciting to boot!
Read MoreWhen you’ve got a job to do, you do it: A Kiwi Officer in an Army of Volunteers
"We are going to Gazala and if the enemy are there we will attack and destroy them and have breakfast. If it's not occupied we will occupy it and have breakfast."
Read MoreACG WebOps (22-28 October 2006)
Armchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreThe Jolly Rogers – Book Review
The F4U Corsair is undoubtedly one of the greatest warplanes ever created. To the Japanese it was known as the ‘Whistling Death’ because of the unique sounds created by this plane making attack runs
Read MoreCivCity: Rome – Game Review (PC)
For fans of ancient Rome and city-builders, Rome is a decent game that allows you to play in a whole new category of city-building and Roman experience. But it has some major flaws as well...
Read MoreChurchill’s Early Escapades as a Soldier
Historian Carlo D'Este presents us with another preview from his forthcoming book on the life of Churchill.
Read MoreFlags of our Fathers – Movie Review
This film presents the gritty and ugly truth of the flag-raising on Mount Suribachi. To Marines on Iwo Jima and to citizens on the home front, the flag became a beacon of hope.
Read MoreClose Combat Series Redux – Interview
With the recent news that Matrix Games has obtained the license to Atomic Games' legendary Close Combat real-time strategy series, we immediately went to the source to learn what we could about how this will play out. David Heath of Matrix Games and Shaun Wallace of CSO Simtek had a briefing with Armchair General to share the following;
Read MoreThe Incorrect Art of War [Episode 23] – Forget the Alamo
Sinister and Menace go all Crockett and Bowie on us as they stumble across an old battlefield in Texas...
Read MoreACG WebOps (15-21 October 2006)
Armchair General's WebOps, our 'this week in military history'-styled look at news links and related websites throughout the Internet!
Read MoreHMMWV Humvee – Book Review
While it might lack the detail and depth of a larger book there is a great deal of information and lots of photos packed in this offering by Osprey.
Read MoreDetling Military Odyssey 2006
If you went down to the woods in Kent recently, you would have definitely received a big surprise!
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