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S&T Press is the publisher of three of the finest military history magazines and games.

Strategy & Tactics Press is one of the world’s leading military history publishing companies. We focus on magazines about military history and our passion for in-depth understanding of the how and why of battles and campaigns. We are especially enthusiastic about developing simulation games on military conflicts to further our understanding. We publish three magazines in both a newsstand magazine

edition as well as a premium edition that comes with a game on the same topic as one of the feature articles in the issue. Through a sister company (Decision Games), we also publish board games in a range of formats. We also publish books that go into greater depth on specific topics with our trademark copious maps (over 200 maps in one book!). www.decisiongames.com
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05/22/2026

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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #34
Sealion The Plan to invade England

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Ch. 4, OKM Plans, Second Conquest

Training
The invasion troops were given specialized training involving the boats to be used for landing. For the most part this amounted to learning how to debark quickly onto the beach.
Surprisingly, little of this training took place on the water, probably because the boats were still undergoing modifications and could not be used. One major exercise was attempted, a small flotilla of boats sailing a mile out to sea, then turned toward the shore. The formation broke down completely, many boats never reached shore. A near collision panicked the troops in one barge. They rushed away from the anticipated impact, unbalancing the barge and causing it to capsize.
More practice clearly was needed, but none was undertaken.

Landing Plan
The entire invasion consisted of three waves. The first was to secure a lodgment on each of the four beaches, then advance to join them into a single beachhead. The second wave included all the invasion’s motorized units. They would be used to complete the bridgehead, then breakout and drive to the final objective line. The third wave was more infantry to add heft to the force onshore and ensure the final objective line could be properly manned.

First Wave
The first wave had by far the toughest assignment and accordingly was given the most detailed plan and considerable support. It was to arrive at all four beaches simultaneously, requiring careful coordination of departure times. German inexperience in seaborne operations made it highly unlikely each of the four flotillas would be able to so control its speed that they all made landfall at the same time.

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05/05/2026

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World at War #108 - Magazine

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West Front '44, Decision on the Rhine by Joseph Miranda

Even as Hi**er was assembling forces for Watch on the Rhine, the SHAEF intelligence staff was coming to the conclusion a German counteroffensive was indeed in the works. The dilemma lay in determining exactly when and where they would strike.
Early intelligence estimates indicated the attack would come in late November from the vicinity of Cologne at the Roer River. They considered the Ardennes an unalterably quiet sector in which veteran US divisions could be refit and recent arrivals acclimatized. They reasoned that the Ardennes region’s many ridges and patches of heavy forest were sufficient to inhibit any German offensives into it (exactly as Anglo-French planners had concluded about it in 1940).
Just as critically, vehicular movement was severely restricted by the road net, particularly in its eastern sector. For example, a single panzer division required at least three parallel roads to conduct a maximally quick advance, and no such approaches existed anywhere in the forest.
They acknowledged the Germans had driven through the Ardennes in 1940, but that was during the late spring, with long daylight, dry ground and Luftwaffe air cover. During the fourth quarter of 1944, alternating snow and mud, and long nights combined with daylight Allied air supremacy, seemingly negated any possibility for the Germans to run a repeat of their earlier success.

Other articles:
The Uman Pocket, July–August 1941
Australia’s Bougainville Campaign, Nov 1944–Aug 1945
Hermann Balck, Greatest “Forgotten” German General of World War II

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04/07/2026

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Strategy & Tactics #358 - Magazine

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Pensacola & the American Revolution in the Southwest
..Siege of Pensacola
Meanwhile, in Havana, the Spanish governor remained reluctant to send ships and troops on an expedition to Florida. The British capture of Havana in 1762 still loomed large and, as his senior naval officer put it: “This island is worth 50 Mobiles or Pensacolas.”

Nevertheless, after capturing Mobile, Gálvez gained enough prestige to win permission to organize such an expedition. On 28 February 1781, he departed Havana for Pensacola, leading a flotilla of 32 ships carrying 1,400 infantry and 1,600 sailors. Gálvez decided to sail directly to Pensacola, while the force in Mobile (900 troops and two cannons) would march overland...

Other feature articles including:

Battle of the Bagradas River: 255 BC
Romanian Disaster at Stalingrad
Battle for Hill 108

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03/17/2026

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World at War #107 - Magazine

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Operation Winterstorm: Von Manstein’s First (& Worst) Defeat
By Ty Bomba

After coming up with the idea for a counteroffensive against the flanks of German Sixth Army in Stalingrad in discussions between themselves, Red Army Chief of Staff Gen. Alexandr Vasilevsky and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Marshal Georgi Zhukov presented the plan to Josef Stalin on 13 September 1942. At that time, street fighting inside the city had been going on for six days and the Germans were making steady progress.

The two officers’ main concern was therefore not so much the recapture of a large swath of territory—as had been the case in front of Moscow late in 1941—but simply to break the Germans’ momentum and in that way save from capture at least some portion of Stalingrad. Their general idea—as they described it to Stalin—was to do that by encircling the Germans in the city via “powerful concentric blows on their flanks held by weak Romanian troops” to the north and south of the city. Stalin liked what he heard and told them to begin detailed planning.
The German high command’s east front intelligence branch, Foreign Armies East (FAE), had actually anticipated Vasilevsky and Zhukov when they submitted a report on the possibilities open to the Soviets for a large-scale counteroffensive. They estimated there were four possible strategies available to them: 1) reconquest of Stalingrad via counterattacks inside the city; 2) a strike past one or both of Sixth Army’s flanks to retake Rostov and cut off Army Group A [AGA] in the Caucasus; 3) an attack to retake Voronezh; or 4) an attack west from the mouth of the Volga at Astrakhan.

Other articles:
British & Germans Tactics in Operation Crusader
Wuhan: Battle for Central China, 1938
Kriegsakademie: Germany’s War College

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03/10/2026

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Modern War Annual provides analysis of conflicts worldwide during 2025. We decided this effort was worthwhile because Clausewitz’s dictum that “war is the continuation of policy by other means” is more the case now than ever before. The wars taking place today reflect a wide range of national interests manifesting on battlefields, with those conflicts increasingly being fought across the entire spectrum of operations.
Most notably, there is the Ukraine War, the first major conflict in Europe since the Wars of the Yugoslav Secession in the 1990s. The Russians’ “special military operation” in Ukraine has had profound effects on the international security situation. Foremost among them, the conflict has brought to the forefront the tactical and operational importance of drones. It also has had profound strategic implications by moving Sweden and Finland to join NATO, thereby effectively turning the Baltic Sea into that alliance’s lake.
There are also ongoing wars in the Middle East, involving the Israelis against various foes stretching from Yemen to Iran and from Gaza to Lebanon and Syria. Those wars are an example of cascading effects. What started as a cross-border raid by Hamas escalated into a theater-level campaign in which the US became kinetically involved...
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03/03/2026

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Modern War Annual, 2025 in Review
Excerpt...
On day one the targets were mostly nuclear facilities: Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan. Israel struck some 100 targets during the first 24 hours, and “Operation Rising Lion” had begun. The following 10 days witnessed repeat strikes on those sites as well as the heavy water (deuterium) plant in Markazi province. Israel’s air campaign, enjoying air supremacy, expanded even further. They hit Iranian aircraft on the ground and attacked the national broadcast center and Evin Prison in Tehran. They also attacked drone production facilities along with oil and gas sites. Interestingly, they made no major effort against Iranian conventional ground forces. Iran struck back. They launched their first two barrages of missiles and drones against Israel during the evening of the first day, and they continued them for the rest of the war. Iran’s attacks were less discriminate and were often aimed at population centers. In response, Israel’s anti-missile systems, coupled with interceptions by air force planes, destroyed an estimated 85 percent of the incoming Iranian projectiles. Iran had no means of degrading those defenses other than by overwhelming them, and to a degree that worked. Munitions supply in Israel became critical, with resupplies having to be rapidly flown in from the US.

02/18/2026

Coming soon from Strategy & Tactics Press, Modern War Annual provides a review of the military conflicts around the world in 2025. Includes 20 articles by many of the writers and columnists of Strategy & Tactics magazine, supported by over 20 maps, diagrams, charts, and infographics. Get in-depth insights on the “how” and “why” of the conflicts.
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02/12/2026

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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #33
Armies of the Dark Ages

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Ch. 7, The Making of England

The year 871 became known as the Year of Battles. On 8 January, at the Battle of Ashdown, Aethelred and Alfred led the Anglo-Saxons to a significant victory, routing the Danish army and killing many of their leaders. Several more major battles followed, with both sides experiencing victories and defeats. The vital town of York in Northumbria fell to the Danes.

Aethelred died in April, and the Witan council of Wessex elected Alfred as king, mainly due to his proven leadership in battle and the confidence he inspired in the nobles and clergy. Unfortunately, his reign began poorly, as a new Danish leader, the Viking King Guthrum, took command of the Great Heathen Army and inflicted several defeats on Anglo-Saxon forces. Guthrum captured London later that year and then turned west to threaten Wessex.

In response, Alfred focused on building up his own fleet to challenge the Vikings at sea. This led to several years of skirmishing, raiding, and intrigue. The Danes held an advantage as they were being reinforced by warriors arriving from Scandinavia, while the Anglo-Saxons operated from a population base increasingly under enemy control. By the autumn of 877, Wessex was the only fully intact Anglo-Saxon kingdom remaining.

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01/28/2026

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Strategy & Tactics #357 - Magazine

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CENTCOM: War for the Persian Gulf, 2001–03; By Joseph Miranda

The organization responsible for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom was the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), a joint service headquarters. CENTCOM’s area of responsibility includes much of the Middle East and adjoining areas, and it was formed as part of the reorganization called for by the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act.

Broadly, those reforms set up a (relatively) streamlined command structure in which commanders were given complete control of all forces in their areas of operation. That control is exercised through a combined headquarters for air, naval, ground and special forces. It is meant to provide unity of effort, with centralized planning but decentralized ex*****on that is therefore more rapidly adaptable to changing circumstances.

Other feature articles including:

Defeat of the White Sheep Turks
Gallipoli Quagmire: Four Battles of Krithia
George Washington’s Crusade Against the Iroquois

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01/16/2026

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World at War #106 - Magazine

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.. What If

As it was, in November 1942, Northwest Africa became the stepping stone for the introduction of American military power into Europe. A little over two years earlier, the same region had narrowly missed becoming the stepping stone for the introduction of German military power into the Western Mediterranean, Iberia and the Atlantic.
Neither of those turning points had been predetermined; rather, they were the outcomes of formulated strategies—some adopted, some abandoned—on the part of those nations’ chief decision-makers. Regarding the French, it is therefore fair to ask what could have happened had Reynaud’s cabinet shown the same determination to resist Germany in June that Petain did in August.

First, the combined Allied fleets would at least initially have enjoyed mastery across the Mediterranean, enough to enable relatively easy passage across it for troops and materiel. Malta would have instantly become the Allies’ most important and heavily reinforced aero-naval base...

Other articles:
The Battle of the Mius River, 1943
The Bougainville Campaign
The Desert Air Force

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