A review of Civilization V, the latest entry in the popular gaming franchise, warns there are sleepless nights ahead when playing this highly addictive game of empire building.

First impresssions of Sid Meier’s Civilization V PC game include beautiful graphics and more dynamic movement and combat, and it’s fun to play, but at times the AI is still dumber than a box of rocks.

A review of Victoria II says details are the soul of this real-time strategy game. Not visually exciting, it is very good at representing the economic and political issues and trends of the Industrial Age.

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the victors met at the Congress of Vienna to redraw Europe’s national boundaries, but the decisions made there led to much unrest.

The Cold War Museum finds a home in Vint Hill, Virginia, near Dulles International Airport.

Full text of a speech by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates at National Defense University, Sept. 29, 2008. He addresses ideas and analysis, as well as points of contention, behind America’s National Defense Strategy.

Jerry Morelock, former Chief of Russia Branch on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon and editor-in-chief of Armchair General magazine, provides additional insight into the Russian invasion of South Ossetia in the Republic of Georgia.

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