The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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During World War II, the Allied powers (primarily the United States and the United Kingdom) engaged in a number of campaigns in the Mediterranean region, including. Another, much more affectionate, replacement for "REMF" is " FOBbits", soldiers who rarely leave the Forward Operating Base. Armchair Generals (and Admirals) are those persons who decide to critique and/or run military operations from the comfort of their. Every issue brings you articles on military history, analysis of current military and political events, and stories of real heroes among us today.

Rumsfeld also either fully believed in (or actually helped create, depending on your viewpoint) the Bush Administration's view that a war against Iraq would be quick and easy, much to the annoyance of military men who remembered the last time the United States invaded a country and had to deal with hostile locals. Not only do the royal Vinsmokes command their armies, but they directly participate in their battles as well. In the final book of The Wheel of Time, then-current strategists and warriors are worried about this becoming the norm of military affairs with the addition of Gateway "skyboxes" to see whole battles from tents.While there's no shortage of General Failures, the troopers don't actually expect the top brass to join them on the frontline given the kind of monsters, daemons, aliens and horrible things with teeth they go up against on a daily basis. Haig is shown at his headquarters to be playing with toy soldiers and discarding them with a dustpan, demonstrating zero concern for the soldiers under his command. Ender realizes he was sending real pilots into battle while he himself stayed safe, thinking it was all a simulation. In one of the films, he commanded his fleet as they engaged in an orbital space battle through the window of an Applebee's. On top of that, Oliver is so intent on a second, climactic battle at the dam itself that he seems blind to Legion raids taking place anywhere else.

The popular image of World War I (in the English-speaking world, at least) has been thoroughly solidified as this trope: clueless upper class twits sending millions of men to their deaths, using Napoleonic tactics against machine guns, all whilst sitting out the war in luxurious chateaus miles behind the frontlines. Pompey's forces significantly outnumbered Caesar's and had them stuck in a siege, which left Caesar's forces falling to disease, starvation, and desertion while Pompey's better supplied men ate and carried on with relative comfort. During the New Guinea campaign, he never went to the front lines, which resulted in him repeatedly sacking commanders who he felt were slacking off, when they were actually trying their damndest to get through the worst terrain in the world.

Army: Tomohiko and all his other civilian buddies, barking about how Japan has to avenge itself, how Shintaro needs to become a soldier, etc. Armchair General online hosts forums – public meeting places for open discussion of various topics, sometimes referred to as a bulletin boards or discussion areas.

Use the term ‘mercenary’ and you likely conjure a visage of fourteenth century condottieri contracting with Italian princes or more recently the activities of the Russian-based Wagner group. PLUS each issue contains unique interactive articles based on actual historical events in which YOU are the commander who must choose the best course of action for victory! Regardless, should they fight to hold Moscow or seek peace with Germany, even one on unfavourable terms? The bureaucrats led by Mizuha, see the young hunters as chances to create a Propaganda Hero cadre (especially in The Rival Katsuya), and thus redistribute the rewards from the veterans to the young members.When acting as fleet commander for the Romulan rebellion at Augo, Jim Kirk notes with some amusement that, of course, anything and everything he does here today will be endlessly analyzed and armchair-quarterbacked for probably centuries to come.