Updating the link to my review of the RLI book that Mark Adams helped put together
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/classic-reviews-africas-commandos-book/
(I'm working over at...
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Updating the link to my review of the RLI book that Mark Adams helped put together
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/classic-reviews-africas-commandos-book/
(I'm working over at...
Some musings on uses for wargaming
http://grogheads.com/featured-posts/9720
(way more at the link)
https://zimbabwe-today.com/rhodesians-must-come-back-rebuild-zimbabwe-war-vets-say/
There's a couple of David Drake's Hammers Slammers series that deal with insurgencies and low-intensity warfare.
I'm just going to set this down here, and walk away :)
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/
excerpt:
I'm sorry, but did the Israelis not forcibly remove every one of their citizens from Gaza about 4-5 years ago? They sent in the military to drag out every Israeli settler left there who refused to...
I missed the earlier link - where's that photo?
Thanks!
The personal political partisanship that is overwhelming this thread, with its underhanded name-calling and barely-veiled insults, have dramatically reduced its usefulness as any sort of...
Don't forget there are plenty of options to explore that don't require a power cord
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72200/red-dragon-green-crescent...
here's 1200-odd posts on the game you're quoting promo material from
http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=4065.0
and here's an interview with them
http://grogheads.com/?p=3965
...
another list
http://grognews.blogspot.com/p/coin-wargaming.html
and more to be found over at PaxSims
sigh... I'm waiting for the day when I'm in a position to come to Connections again.
If anyone is heading to Columbus OH for Origins, here's the info about the Wargaming program we're putting on there
http://grogheads.com/?p=4208
several years of Connections info here, too:
http://grognews.blogspot.com/search/label/Connections
missed last year, but this has the 3 before that.
It's unlikely I can make this year, but...
Also a review of the commercial wargame A Distant Plain from GMT covering Afghanistan (from the aforementioned Volko Ruhnke) over here
http://grogheads.com/?p=3815
Personally, I think the Rhodesians got screwed, and the rest of the world is loath to admit it, because of the inevitable screams of 'racism' that will inevitably accompany anyone attempting to voice...
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Some simple word replacement...
OK, so it's not a perfect 1-for-1 swap. But it's not half-bad.
so we're the chameleons of war! :D
Actually, Perrin makes a rather compelling case that the US operational art, and theater-level strategy, is built around a 'converging columns' model of...
I like the taking a picture of the taking of the picture. Very 'meta'
list of Russians ships in the Med or almost there (near as we can tell, from OSINT sources)
http://grognews.blogspot.com/2013/09/russian-med-naval-presence.html
For anyone that might be interested, there's a scenario for the Lock'n'Load board game series that depicts the last stand of Kadhafi
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/1933/47xi.jpg
other Libya...
Glad to support both the cause and the history behind it. It's a fantastic book that's worthy of whatever praise can be heaped on it.
review posted at GrogHeads.com
http://grogheads.com/?p=2294
Link to buy with Amazon, which means SWJ get a referral fee:http://smallwarsjournal.com/content/support
GrogHeads.com is looking for papers that folks might have written for varying research projects on games/gaming. I'm sure some of our FA57s in the audience have something floating around somewhere...
perhaps of interest:
http://source.southuniversity.edu/examining-the-mob-mentality-31395.aspx
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