Balkan Wargamer

 This is a 2028 scenario book written by Carlo Masala, which I read for my day job writing a defence analysis for a European think tank. Ho...

  1956, The Year That Changed  Britain by  Francis Beckett and Tony Russell was my library pick for the month. A bit self-indulgent, as it ...

 This is the story of Russian private security companies that gave Putin a flexible and deniable military arm as he began to intervene, not ...

I got interested in the Korean War when researching the Turkish units that fought there for my books on the Cyprus conflict. Two new Ospreys...

 This is Bojan Dimitrijevic's account of the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-95 conflict. Many books have been written on the conflic...

 This is Bryan Perrett's book on the weapons systems deployed by both sides in the Falklands War. It was written just after the conflict...

 This is a new title from the Osprey Air Campaign series by Angus Konstam, which examines the carrier campaign in the Falklands War. While ...

 This is a new Osprey MAA on the North Korean and Chinese ground forces in the Korean War by Benjamin Lai and Zhao Guoxing. There is an old ...

 A new and an older book has scratched an itch for a side project on a what-if clash between Bulgaria and Turkey during the early Cold War p...

 One aspect of researching the first volume in our book for Helion on the Cyprus crisis of 1963/64 was reading all I could find on the F-10...

 I have a new book out today, Cyprus 1974: A Wargamers Guide . The subject will be familiar given the number of scenario play tests I have ...

 This is a new title in the Osprey Air Campaign series covering the Yom Kippur War by Shlomo Aloni. The Arab-Israeli conflict was my first ...

 Writing the HMS Ambuscade book interested me in the broader development of navies since the Second World War. This book by Bruce Watson c...

 This weekend (20/21 July) is the 50th anniversary of the Turkish military intervention on the island of Cyprus in July 1974.  The 1960 agre...

 I have reached the last stage of my research into HMS Ambuscade for the book that should be out this summer. My summary of the ships is on...

 Last week, I spent the final day of my visit to the National Archives looking at the HMS Ambuscade ship's logs for the Falklands campai...

This a study by Alexander Mladenov and Evgeni Andonov of the Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s, in the Helion Books Europe@War series.  Prim...