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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #34 - Sealion: Plan to Invade England w/ Map Poster
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Sealion: Lost Opportunity or Disaster Averted? Hitler's Germany had achieved an unimaginably rapid victory over France in the spring of 1940 to gain complete domination of western Europe. Britain alone held out, secure—or so it seemed—behind the moat of the English Channel. German planners had already made preliminary studies for an invasion of the island, but these were more in the nature of contingency plans than serious operational proposals. That changed in July when Hitler called for an invasion—Operation Sealion—to be carried out that fall. This issue will examine the inception, planning, preparations, and likelihood of success. The invasion will also be placed in the larger context of the war, to include the possibility the invasion was a bluff, either to push Britain to the negotiating table or distract the Soviet Union, plus proposed alternatives for defeating Britain such as the aero-naval blockade of Britain and Grand Admiral Raeder's Mediterranean strategy.
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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #30 - Mediterranean Campaign 1940–1941 w/ Map Poster
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War in the Mediterranean: The WWII war in the Middle Sea was a significantly neglected topic, with the naval war primarily focused on supply, with the British aiming supplies at the island of Malta to keep it protected and the Italo-Germans supplying men and material to North Africa. The complexion of the war changed many times due to fortunes of war and strategic decisions by the belligerents.
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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #24 - The Chinese Civil War, 1945–59 w/ Map Poster
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The Chinese Civil War, 1945–59: A Military History: The Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War wasn’t inevitable, and it was the largest military struggle since the end of World War II. This issue will provide a campaign-by-campaign analysis, with detailed maps and orders of battle for both sides. Analysis will also be presented in regard to how the evolving attitude of the US enabled the Communist victory.
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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #22 - Guderian’s Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat /w Map Poster
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Guderian’s Panzers: From Triumph to Defeat: Operation Barbarossa, which had commenced with such promise for Guderian’s panzers, and for the eastern army at large, ended in catastrophic failure. How did it come to pass that, with each dazzling victory in the east, final victory seemed to move further away from Germany’s grasp? This issue examines Guderian’s role in the first half-year of the Russian campaign, in the process opening a window onto the failure of Barbarossa as a whole.
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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #12 - Dreadnoughts w/ Map Poster
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Dreadnoughts – Big-Gun Era of Naval Warfare: Few weapons have come and gone so precipitously as the modern battleship. HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906, instantly made every other battleship obsolete.
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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #10 - Whirlwind (NO MAP POSTER)
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Whirlwind – The Soviet-German War 1943-1945: Stalingrad was the end of major German advances in the east, but not the end of the war. Despite massive losses in the first eighteen months of fighting, the Soviets were just reaching their peak strength, coupled with an increasing stream of weapons, supplies, and equipment from the western Allies.
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Barbarossa: Germany's Assault on the Soviet Union, 1941-1942 (No MAP)
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The 1941 German invasion of the USSR ignited a firestorm that engulfed some 26 million Soviet and 9 million German lives, making it the decisive European theater of World War II. Arguments as to whether the Germans had a realistic chance to win their war in the east continue among historians to this day.
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #359 - Game Edition
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Forgotten Front: Italy, 1944-45 is a conflict simulation of the last year of World War II on the Italian Front between the Allied forces (British, United States and their allies) and the Axis powers (German and Italian fascists).
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #359 - Game Only
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Forgotten Front: Italy, 1944-45 is a conflict simulation of the last year of World War II on the Italian Front between the Allied forces (British, United States and their allies) and the Axis powers (German and Italian fascists).
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Strategy & Tactics Issue #359 - Magazine
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Forgotten Front: Italy, June 1944–May 45 On 5 June 1944, Rome fell to the Allies. It was the first Axis capital to do so, and it should have been huge news. However, D-Day took place the next day. As one reporter put it at the time, Allied forces in Italy—and across the Mediterranean—suddenly “become performers without an audience.” Italy remained a backwater for the rest of the war, but here is our analysis of its continued strategic importance. Feature articles including: 17th Century Corporate Wars, The Battle of Parwan: Afghanistan, 1221, The Cenepa War
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