Recently I did several posts here describing my new interest in WW2 naval wargaming, and how I picked the 1939 Battle of the River Plate as ...

So now that I’ve resurrected my French and Austrian 6mm miniatures and am frantically painting more while the mini-mojo courses through my b...

Another in a semi-regular quotation that came from an email list run by an Army friend of mine.  This particular quote below seems like a g...

Hello friends! Just blowing the dust off this blog to see if it works.   I get a semi-regular quotation from an an email list run by a...

A belated Happy New Year to you!    I hope you all had a pleasant holidays.  For my part, getting back from a month in Australia just befor...

  Apropos to my post last week on last week’s post about a disastrous and badly flawed US military war-game, here is another article from...

I’ve been dropping off library books as I prepare to leave university and go back to work, and one of them was Charles Esdaille’s The Pennin...

  It’s the Cold War.  You’re a US Special Forces operative, parachuting into enemy territory (could be Eastern Europe, could be North Kore...

 I am happy to say that I am back from Italy.  Madame Padre and I decided that Italy is a word meaning “Beautiful Land of Delicious Food” a...

I was in Ottawa last week pursuing research towards my MA thesis, and paid a visit to Canada’s military archives, which are maintained by th...

US journalist Tom Ricks put me on to this piece in last week's The Telegraph on a question asked by Britain's National Army Muse...