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Individual soldiers, short tactical turns, and suppressive fire put the infantry fight at the center of this WWII miniature system.
Formation command, the cost of coordination, and enemy responses give David Reynolds' WWII rules a different problem from simply lining up tanks and rolling to hit.
Japan, the Guomindang government, Chinese Communists and regional warlords pursue competing military and political aims during the opening years of the Second Sino-Japanese War.…
China and the United States compete through diplomacy, economics, regional influence and calibrated military pressure in the disputed South China Sea. Card play forces both side…
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1863 · October 29
American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet in one of the few night battles of the war, protecting the Union's recently opened supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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2 December 1805 · Moravia
Napoleon’s most celebrated victory was not magic. It was a calculated risk, an Allied command failure, and a violent contest whose outcome remained uncertain longer than the legend suggests.
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A strategic naval campaign built around reach, timing, and accepting the right risks.
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