Author Peter Suciu examines the similarities between the 1848 revolutions in Europe and those taking place in the Middle East today.

Libyan government offers cease fire in response to UN resolution.

Egypt’s embattled president, Hosni Mubarak, has handled power to the military and stepped down.

A review of the PC game Tropico 3 calls it ‘fun, challenging, and humorous,’ though no actual combat strategy is involved in players’ machinations to remain El Presidente of a tropical island.

Eleven Lebanese cabinet members resigned to protest a United Nations-backed tribunal that is expected to indict members of Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of a prime minister.

Google Maps recently inflamed border disputes between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but those disputes are nearly two centuries old.

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.

Historian Carlo D’Este examines the recent firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and highlights reasons to celebrate July 4th.

Armchair General Editor in Chief Jerry Morelock compares the recent firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his relationship with Barack Obama to that of Lincoln and McCellan and Truman and MacArthur.

his review of the PC game Rise of Prussia says contemplative players who linger over and like to fine-tune their force dispositions will feel the love, but those who want a tactical-level Seven Years War game should look elsewhere.

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.

This review of 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency says the book succeeds in presenting a picture of the public and personal issues Lincoln faced during his presidency, using bite-sized anecdotes and explanatory asides.

A review of Twilight Struggle, a card-driven board wargame that pits players against each other as the US and USSR in the Cold War, trying to gain political dominance without starting a nuclear war.

Twelve books recommended by Ralph Peters to guide readers who want to learn more about a subject that shaped the world we live in today – and that still creates world crises – the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

A review of The World’s Bloodiest History: Massacre, Genocide, and the Scars They Left on Civilization says the book is almost unrelentingly grim but should be in the library of every military and political leader for what it teaches.