War Strategy Lover Pillows

'...forget the hearts and mind claptrap.'

'A portcullis is SO yesterday!'

Cheers For The Hollyhock Middle School Chess Team

Putin and Zelensky

'General, please hire large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny.'

Shaped Much Different: Vietnam and Afghanistan.

"I love fast break business success."

"World War III? Hmm. O.K., but, remember, nobody gets hurt."

'I gotta bad feeling about this.'

The Costs Of Doing War.

Siege of Vicksburg - Sappers Approach Confederate Fortifications

The Appearance of the Gatling Machine-Gun in 1864 caught the world by surprise.

News of the Day - Savings Bank.

'Steady,...not yet,...hold your positions.'

Military history

Count Von Moltke.

Don't Worry, Joe, about Afghanistan

"Here is the campaign strategy and here are the after-the-fact excuses."

'No. No. Don't bomb them now. Wait until morning, when the birds are singing and the air is alive with a sense of possibility.'

"I said it was time to send in the DRAGOONS!"

"How's your bowling game, soldier?"

The Sinking of the Moskva

"Russia's always bigger than you think."

The Future

"I'm new at this - how long did it take you to get things under control?"

"If you can't beat them, sir, perhaps you should consider colluding with them."

'I think this is a bit over the top.'

'This is us.'

'Ambushing them is a great idea: I usually tend to charge blindly...'

Splendid Advice

'The CEO thinks we need to look at a 'rebranding' exercise if we're to get business moving.'

I'm watching "Untold History of the United States" on Netflix. Is it true it was actually the Soviet Union that won World War II? … and is it true Japan was trying to surrender because the USSR had just entered the war against them, but we nuked them anyway just to show Russia who was boss? And is it true Truman single-handedly started the cold war and the arms race by reneging on deals Roosevelt and Churchill had struck with Stalin and then threatening to nuke the USSR? History's interesting no

"Sire, the barbarian's are no longer at the gate...they're inside it!"

Army Men: Home From Afghanistan Playset

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