A review of DCS Black Shark, a hard-core PC simulator of the Russian Ka-50 attack helicopter, warns that this “study simulation” requires a lot of study but flight-sim fans looking for games in the tradition of AH-64D Longbow will love it!

The monthly series Tactics 101 continues its look at airborne operations with an examination of how to develop a Marshaling Plan for activities from the first warning order until the first aircraft takes off with airborne troops.

Four fundamentals in airborne operations are explored in the continuing monthly series Tactics 101 on ArmchairGeneral.com.

This month’s entry in the continuing Tactics 101 series begins a miniseries of articles on tactical enabling operations, actions that set the conditions for conducting a larger mission at a later time.

A review of Steven L. Melton’s The Clausewitz Delusion, a book that maintains the U.S. Army’s infatuation with the writings of 19th-century military theoretician Carl von Clausewitz led to many of the problems in the Irag and Afghanistan wars.

A new addition to the miniature wargaming genre, Battlefield Evolution: Modern Combat is easy to learn and fun to play. An ArmchairGeneral.com review.

The monthly series Tactics 101 continues its exploration of air assault with a look at the three key elements of The Landing Plan: sequencing, timing, and location.

The continuing series Tactics 101 goes into detail on the key components of an air assault operation, beginning with the Ground Tactical Plan, in this month’s installment on ArmchairGeneral.com.

Air assault operations! The authors of the continuing monthly series Tactics 100 on the Armchair General Website kick off a string of articles exploring mobile air assault – what it can do, what it can’t, and how to employ it.

The troopers of Multi-National Forces Iraq are advising and training their Iraqi counterparts to create a formidable national security structure that will be capable of maintaining internal security and defending Iraqi territory, airspace, and waters

Truppenführung, the 1933 German Army command manual that guided that army’s leaders throughout World War II, has been called the most influential doctrinal manual ever written. This review praises the new English translation, The German Art of War.

A review of The Accidental Guerrilla, a book by David Kilcullen, acknowledges Kilcullen’s expertise in counterinsurgency and guerrilla warfare operations and finds his treatment of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan extremely valuable and unique.

The continuing series Tactics 101, in its April 2009 installment, covers the critical concepts of transitioning between offensive and defensive postures.

Armchair General’s Tactics 101 column continues this month with a look at The Delay.

Strategist and author Ralph Peters describes Israel’s punitive expedition into Gaza a half-way war and observes that in the conduct of war, the innocent will always suffer, but the misery should not be disproportionate to the value of the results.

P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War, explains in his own words how technology is giving rise to the ‘strategic corporal’ and the ‘tactical general’.