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| Officers Get Sim Iraq Rides |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 12:59 am |
| Tags: Iraq Sucks, History Makes Me Sleepy, Practice Makes Perfect |
| Paul McLeary from the Columbia Journalism Review reports: What do you get when you combine 3-D imaging, kick-ass computer animation and the war in Iraq? “Virtual Staff Rides,” as provided by the Combat Studies Institute at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. During a conference last week at Leavenworth, Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Kennedy gave |
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| Flashback: Nazi Smart Bombs! |
| Published: October 25, 2007, 11:37 pm |
| Tags: At Sea, History Makes Me Sleepy |
| game in our military history. In the fall of 1943, the Germans unleashed a new weapon that threatened to reverse the U.S. Navy’s rising ascendency in the Mediterranean, as Rick Atkinson explains in The Day of Battle, his kick-ass sequel to the Pulitzer-winning An Army at Dawn. On September 11 over the Allied beachhead in |
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| The U.S. Civil War Almost Became an Iraq-Style Insurgency |
| Published: April 25, 2008, 2:15 am |
| Tags: History Makes Me Sleepy |
| important moments in U.S. history, decided to surrender his army rather than unleash hell — essentially overruling Davis. And Grant, in a characteristic display of pragmatism, allowed surrendering Rebels to return home with their sidearms and horses, and their dignity. The Civil War was over … and a potentially bloody insurgency |
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