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After Action Report Newsletter: March 2025

PDF Download: 2025_03_HMGS_AAR_Wargaming_Newsletter . After Action Report Newsletter — March 2025   VC Lockwood Strikes Again: 1848 Shako US Marines in Iraq 2004: RUSE Warfare Meeting Engagement: Epic Space Marines Triumph & Tragedy: Relearning Chevauchée: Hundred Years War RUSE HMGS

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After Action Report Newsletter: February 2025

PDF Download: 2025_02_HMGS_AAR_Wargaming_Newsletter . After Action Report Newsletter — February 2025   War of Austrian Succession: Tricorn D-Day: Axis & Allies A&A D-Day: Wild Game HMGS Next Gen: Gaming Goodness Normandy 1944: A Skirmish RUSE Back to the Chateau: WWI

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After Action Report Newsletter: January 2025

PDF Download: 2025_01_HMGS_AAR_Wargaming_Newsletter . After Action Report Newsletter — January 2025   WWII Firepower: Chain of Command Company Level Battle: Chain of Command SpaceBase: Enthusiasm SpaceBase: Genesis and Biodome HMGS-Next Gen: Gaming A Plenty Battle of Edington 878: Rye, NY

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Historicon 2024 After Action Report

Historicon 2024 is over and I wanted to provide a “brief overview” of the convention results, allowing everyone to understand some of the details that each convention director considers before, during and after each convention. This report was delayed due

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What Is Miniature Wargaming

By Lt. Col. Wilbur Gray This is a companion piece to the History of Wargaming; used here with his permission. A Short Primer for the Newcomer Introduction Historical miniature wargaming is the recreation of historical battles (the tactical level of

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The History of Wargaming

By Lt. Col. Wilbur Grayadapted from the author’s master’s thesis Playing War: the Applicability of Commercial Conflict Simulations to Military Intelligence Training and Education (DIA Joint Military Intelligence College, Bolling AFB, DC, 1995)used here with his permission. Military Wargaming Early

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BOOK REVIEW: Operation Mincemeat

How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Author: Ben MacIntyre The British “Section 17M” concocted a plan to plant false information on a dead body. It would drift it into Spain and

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All the Drowned Sailors

. . by Raymond P. Loch A 1982 look at the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine. Anything that could go wrong in the tracking of the ship went wrong — and way wrong — from

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