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Real Clear Defense: “Russian Navy Ever Less Capable of Supporting Putin’s War Plans”
By Paul Goble “The Russian navy, the Military-Maritime Fleet (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot—VMF), always a poor relation to the Russian Land Forces given geography and national traditions, has been contracting in size since 1985. Now, as Izvestia announced last
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War on the Rocks: “How Does the Next Great Power Conflict Play Out?”
Lessons from a Wargame JAMES LACEY APRIL 22, 2019 COMMENTARY “The United States can win World War III, but it’s going to be ugly and it better end quick, or everyone starts looking for
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Video: Invasion of Japan: Operation Olympic
Military History Visualized Published on Apr 21, 2017 SUBSCRIBE 444K “This video takes a look at Operation Olympic, which was part of Operation Downfall the Invasion of Japan and focused on the island Kyushu. It
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No Enemies Here: CDG’s and trying to explain it.
No Enemies Here Published on Apr 21, 2019 SUBSCRIBED 1.2K News about people who review, unbox, showcase, do playthroughs, podcasts and more concerning war board games. Some music too. Please support this channel
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At Any Cost: Metz 1870: An After-Action-Report – Part II – French Forces
By Josef Tham Part II At midday, the first units from Voigts-Rhetz’s X Corps (green) will show up from the south, with one infantry brigade and divisional artillery from Schwartzkoppen’s division plus a cavalry
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At Any Cost: Metz 1870: An After-Action-Report – Part III – Early Morning Action
Part III By Josef Tham Situation At Set-Up As can be seen, the only Prussian formation starting on the map is Rheinbaben’s 5th Cavalry Division, although Wilhelm’s 6th Cavalry Division and most of Alvensleben’s
Read More »At Any Cost: Metz 1870: An After-Action-Report – Part IV – The French Close In
Part IV By Josef Tham Yet again the Bazaine’s Malaise chit was drawn early (put on Frossard’s battered corps to keep him from rallying or assaulting Flavigny again), yet again the activation chit for
Read More »At Any Cost: An After-Action-Report – Part V – Heavy Action in the Center
Part V By Josef Tham The Prussian Aggressive Tactics chit appeared late this turn as well, to no effect against a loaded Prussian Aggressiveness track. DuBarail’s 1st Reserve Cavalry Division (light green) began moving
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Tiny Battles: “The Devil’s to Pay: The First Day at Gettysburg” – Alpha testing
By Fred Manzo End of Turn 1 of the “Ewell be comin’ Round the Moutain” scenario for Hermann Luttmann’s “The Devil’s to Pay: the First Day at Gettysburg” using his new “Blind Swords Lite”
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