War
5th Alpini Regiment Monday – Escape from Operation Little Saturn
The Italian army in World War 2 gets a bad rap from a lot of people (myself included). It seems like the Germans were always cleaning up campaigns that the Italians had made a mess of (North Africa and the Balkans are just two examples), while morale-wise, even the Romanians were probably better soldiers. However,…
Read MoreTH# Thursday 1:Target-Based Hit Determination DRM Case J
Today I’m proud to finally unveil a brand new direction for www.isleyunruh.com: I’m moving from weekly to daily postings! It was always a problem of content rather than time (I can only write so much Lord of the Rings fan-fiction before I finally have to admit I’m who writes Lord of the Rings fan-fiction), but…
Read MoreWar Games – What is the appeal?
I’ve talked about board games before, and in that post I discussed how there are a ton of games out there with simple rules, short playing times and fun strategic choices that are all far better than the “roll the dice and move” games you find at Walmart. Well, this post will not be about those games,…
Read MoreThe World War II Balkan Campaign Explained
While most people can describe the general details of the Polish and French campaigns in broad strokes (Germany blitzkrieged through Poland…then they did it to France), the Balkan campaign is most often thought of as simply “the blunder that critically delayed the Russian invasion” (which, as I have already written, did not actually delay the Russian invasion since the extended 1941 rainy…
Read MoreOperation Market Garden – Monty’s Gamble.
World War II has always fascinated me. There are all kinds of interesting things about “The War of Nazi Aggression”, but I think the thing that really appeals to me is that it was the first war to truly utilize modern “combined arms” tactics. The proper integrated use of armor, air-power, artillery and infantry was…
Read MoreWWII Resistance – Just a hill of beans?
First, if you haven’t seen Casablanca and don’t know how it ends…well lucky you! Quit reading this and go watch it! If you have seen it, or don’t care about spoiling one of the great movies for yourself, read on: Casablanca is one of those movies that just gets better with every viewing. It pretty…
Read MoreBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: a Reevaluation of Hitler’s Russian “Blunder”.
Having read literally ONES of books on World War II, and perused literally TENS of Wikipedia articles on the subject, I have decided to use my vast expertise to write a bit about a common (at least so it is beginning to seem to me) misconception about Hitler’s decision to invade Russia. And since this…
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