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   Fox News Alert: Captured U.S. Soldiers Should Be Killed, Because They Suck | Nonsense News says:

   7/22/2009 at 12:19 am

   [...] Oh, Mr. Peters!  You crazy rascal, you!  Has any “expert” ever been wrong about more things than you have?  But then, what should we expect from a military expert who’s never seen combat, and who writes for the hilariously-named “Armchair General Magazine“? [...]

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   Robert K. Wilcox says:

   2/18/2011 at 3:20 am

   Can you tell me how to get the November 2010 issue with the article entitled “Was Patton Murdered.” I’ll be happy to pay. Thank you.

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     Gerald D. Swick says:

     2/18/2011 at 12:13 pm

     You can purchase back issues at our online store, Rob. There’s other nifty stuff there, too.

     http://www.armchairgeneral.com/armchair-general-store#back

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   Thomas Robb says:

   11/3/2011 at 4:04 pm

   How do I get in touch with Carlo D’Este. I would like to have him speak to our class of military officers who are studying the Invasion of Sicily. Thank you.

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   Tin Nguyen says:

   12/16/2011 at 1:29 pm

   I started the thread “What you might still not know about the Ia Drang Battle” and was shutted out today for contriving Boonie, its moderator. I think it is a case of abuse of power: shutting out an opponent because he was loosing in the arguments. I would like you to take a closer look in this matter.

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   Tin Nguyen says:

   12/17/2011 at 7:10 am

   Thank you for your prompt intervention: I have been allowed back in the forum.

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   Tin Nguyen says:

   12/20/2011 at 3:16 pm

   I thought I won’t have to bother you anymore. But something new occured that needs your attention.
   I posted the following situational report
   “My Current Standing Status in ACG Forum
   ________________________________________
   Let me make a report on my standing status in this forum as I understand it.
   When I first joined in this forum, I was greeted with open arms.

   I was humbled and eager to learn from military experts among the members as well as willing to offer my insights of the Ia Drang battle. I made it very clearly that at the outset that I would bring the expertise of my brother, General Nguyen Van Hieu, who was the main player in that battle.
   On the way, I exposed my ignorance in some basic military knowledge, such as map reading, military symbols, types of report (AAR, ORLL), etc. I was offered some schooling in these areas and gladly accepted the opportunity to learn. A mutual friendly rapport had been established.

   But then came in Altus, the VC I knew from TTVNOL, who started to challenge me at any opportunities. When I went into the counteroffensive and denounced him as a spy, I provoked an unexpected collective clamor of indignation from several ACG members who was unknowningly “americongs”. I was even admonished by the moderator for “nonsense” and “disturbance of peace”. In addition to that, I contrived several prominent members by exposing their flaws in their military fields of expertise. With the combination of these two elements, the tide took a sudden adversarial reverse turn against me.

   The end result is that although I presented a most compelling exposé of the Pleime-Chupong-Iadrang campaign, during which time, nobody was able to come up with any objections and remained silent all along, until the moment I laid out the Art of How To Bridle a Mustang, Boonie launched the first salvo of an attack, not on inaccuracies of what I said – he could not name a single one, but a personal attack of a vague accusations of “hagiography, of promoting my brother and my book (what’s wrong with that even if that’s false or true). His followers in the assault could neither come up with any inaccuracies of what I said and also were contented with personal attacks.

   The majority of ACG’s members – not the silent majority, but the vocal ones – had their mind totally locked up. They could not see the beauty of Colonel Hieu’s extraordinary operational concept that enabled him to herd the three NVA regiments into one location and to maintain them lingering at staging areas to become seating ducks, perfect targets for B-52 air strikes. They did not applaud when faced with such a military feat. Just because Colonel Hieu, an Arvin, had fared better than his American counterparts commanding generals, they booed him down. They are capable of praising a PAVN general, but not an ARVN general!

   Strange indeed! It’s beyond comprehension. How can they justify their negative attitude? Are they that biaised?! Did they let their negative feelings obfuscate their mental ability of judgement and fairness attitude?

   When I pointed out that my thread is well received and the fastest growing one based on the numbers of views, I was told no one – meaning ACG members – would read my postings anymore! The continuation of multiple counter clock tickings (10829) has – thanks to God – proved them wrong.

   This strange situation makes me put in doubt the integrity of some “top” ACG members (actually I found out they are a group of self-serving guys who pat each other shoulders and could not stand being contradicted). And I can say I have not been treated fairly by them.

   They almost succeeded in preventing me from bringing in my insight contribution on the Ia Drang battle to the ACG community.
   ”
   To which, Boonie characterizes as a tantrum and threaten to cut me off:
   “Phieu, I strongly suggest you stop that attention-seeking tantrum or believe me I won’t hesitate a single second to ban you permanently from ACG and delete your precious thread. I have neither the time nor the patience to deal with that kind of s**t right now .”
   To which I was forced to declare:
   “Yes, Sir!
   You don’t need to curse, Sir!
   I am going back to Iadrang battle … where I do best…
   ”
   Is Boonie within his moderator’s authority to issue such a threat?

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