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Remembering Pearl Harbor, the loss, the following sacrifice, and the amazing prosperity that ultimately resulted. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearl-harbor-bombed

http://admiraltytrilogy.com/llbond.html "Everyone at ATG is saddened by the death of one of its designers, John Gresham, who passed away on July 2nd after a long illness. He was 58. John was co-author of Supermarina, Volumes I and II with Mike Markowitz. Over the more than twenty years he worked with ATG, he contributed six articles to the Naval SITREP, and provided assistance to the authors of many more. He was generous with his time, sharing information and research materials with colleagues. His most recent piece was an update on the Littoral Combat Ship program, which appeared in issue 49 (Oct 2015)." John was an active Harpooner and contributed to the work …

Fancy giving your kids a toy Liaoning for Christmas?

In case you missed it so far, small unit PBEM in progress... http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?/forum/68-first-strike/

Thank you Veterans, for serving!

I send you the PowerPoint of my latest presentation, is in Spanish, but with some funny photos. Was here, 29 May 2015, Instituto Universitario General Gutiérrez Mellado: http://iugm.es/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/actividades/2015/VII_JORNADAS_DE_SUGURIDAD/HORARIO_PARA_LAS_VII_JORNADAS.pdf CIBERPROPAGANDA 2015.ppt

A curious novel about the hypothetical mission of a Walter turbine powered German submarine in the last stages of WWII: http://jtmcdaniel.com/honour.html

The story starts in an alternate universe with the battlecruiser Amagi fighting the ABDA elements in Java Sea, and later all is more complicated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyermen

Wargaming in the Classroom: An Odyssey (War on the Rocks)

Gaming the System: Obstacles to Reinvigorating Defense Wargaming (War on the Rocks)

Getting the Most out of Your Wargame: Practical Advice for Decision-Makers (War on the Rocks)

Great work, Tony! Glad to see that you and all the staff here are still working for harpoon and try to make it better! But, personally speaking, I wish the ANW could also be updated, to fix the bugs and add more new features if possible. PS. I saw there are some players who play CMANO request the programmers to modify the game so that it can be connected with STK, just like Harpoon Pro(or Harpoon MilSim). What do you think?

A wish for a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from HarpGamer to you and yours.

Let’s Play War - Could war games replace the real thing? (Nautilus) Excellent article!

So you've created a game, update, database, utility, scenario, and would like the world to experience your great work-product... You post it to HarpGamer.com and wait for the accolades and glowing usage reports to come in but instead you hear absolutely nothing. Soon you would settle for a bit of harsh criticism but nothing appears. Welcome to the world of Harpoon! In many ways your initial work-product was the easy part since it was effort you enjoy. At this point it is time to don your latent "Marketing Genius" hat. My intent is to make a number of posts laying out potential ways to increase uptake of your work and maybe even grow a following that publicly par…

Many difficulty levels for a game to find NATO members, partners and others: http://www.nato.int/multi/mapgame/public/index.html

I expect that this will go up at AJJE Games over the next couple of days, so I had better advertise it now. Covert-81 combines three of the areas at I have a great interest in- RPing, espionage and the Cold War, in the form of a play-by-post RPG. The year is 1981. Détente is in ruins after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With the SS-20 missile deployment in the Western USSR and the planned NATO counter-deployments, a new, seemingly hard-line US president and a rapidly arming USSR, it seems that nuclear war is closer than ever. Behind the summits and the rhetoric, shadowy operations are going on. Two black-ops organisations, one on each side of the East-Wes…

... starring a "Shattered Armada" scenario (Enrique Mas Ayala, an interesting and sad Spanish Civil War story). http://www.wargamevault.com/product/145352/Shattered-Armada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_submarine_C-3 Crew list: http://www.mundosubmarino.es/OP/pecios/sub_c3.html

Tom Clancy, Larry Bond, Steven Coontz, Dale Brown - I have read most of their stuff. Did not necessary retain the copy. I will give a brief discretion of a passage of action - and can anyone help with name the book or author.I'd guess book was written between 1988 (last year Reagan was President) to 2006 (into Clinton years) Toward the end of the book. A ballistic missile has been launched toward Washington DC. An Aegis Cruiser is positioned in the Anacostia or Potomac River. And they start firing a the missile - with a Sm (standard Missile)- First missile has a proximity fuze and fragmentation warhead. he describe fact closure rate is Too fast - proximity fuse works pe…

Navy veteran takes on Saipan's restriction on handguns (Stars and Stripes) Hope he wins!