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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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02/06/2025

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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #29
Ottoman Empire

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Ch. 5, Turning Point Vienna to Selim III (1683–1797)

Leopold started with a diplomatic offensive and gained the support of Pope Innocent XI. Throughout history, the Papacy had been the focal point for a united Christian effort against the Muslim power, so it was significant that the Pope backed Leopold’s cause. King Sobieski also joined the anti-Ottoman alliance with his powerful army, which included the renowned Polish Hussar cavalry known for their devastating charges.
In theory, Leopold’s main strength came from the Holy Roman Empire itself. The Empire’s various principalities and free cities were organized into Kreise (Defense Circles), which could be called upon to raise armies for the Reichsarmee (Imperial Army). The Imperial Diet (Parliament) provided direction and crucial funding to this end.

Leopold faced a dilemma due to the aftermath of the Wars of Religion. The emperor strongly supported the Counter-Reformation, backing the Catholics against the Protestants. As a result, he alienated many Hungarian Protestants, who saw an Ottoman advance against the Empire as an opportunity for more autonomy. Additionally, a number of German states, especially Brandenburg and Saxony, were officially Protestant. However, some states, like Bavaria, were pro-Catholic. Despite these differences, many of the Protestant princes recognized the threat of Ottoman expansion against Christian states regardless of denomination. German armies, under the command of Duke Charles of Lorraine, marched in support of Leopold. Jan Sobieski and his Polish Commonwealth army, along with small reinforcements of Wallachians, Cossacks, and Swedes, also marched to Vienna to aid the cause.

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01/29/2025

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Strategy & Tactics #351 - Magazine

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The Bosnian War: 1992–95
..Croatia and Slovenia’s independence was soon recognized internationally, but the status of ethnic Serbs outside Serbia and Montenegro and ethnic Croatians outside Croatia remained uncertain. After a string of escalating violent incidents, the “Wars of the Yugoslav Secession” began, most severely in multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The final dissolution of Yugoslavia would be decided at the negotiation table, but not until that series of wars were fought out. The first of them, in Slovenia and Croatia in 1991–92, proved to be nothing more than brief preludes to three years of genocidal conflict that followed in Bosnia-Herzegovina...

Other feature articles including:

Tecumseh & the Indian Wars of the Old Northwest
The War in Carinthia: 1918–20
The Mongol Conquest of the Rus

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01/27/2025

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01/10/2025

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12/30/2024

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World at War #100 - Magazine

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D-Day to the Rhine: 1944–45

At the start of December 1944, the Anglo-Allies seemingly stood poised to launch their final offensives against the German defenses along the Rhine. However, on 16 December, the Germans preemptively launched their own massive counteroffensive in the Ardennes—Operation Watch on the Rhine. In doing so, they penetrated the Allied front, creating a salient jutting toward the Meuse River and, from there, potentially threatening the vital supply port of Antwerp...

Other articles:
The Fall of East Prussia, 1945
Pacific D-Day: Saipan, 15 June 1944
Germany’s Middle East Option

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12/03/2024

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11/26/2024

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Strategy & Tactics #350 - Magazine

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Rêves de Gloire (Dreams of Glory): Napoleon vs. the Coalitions

Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France in a coup on 9 November 1799, declaring himself “first consul” in a triumvirate regime, one in which the other two consuls had only advisory roles. He then led a lightning campaign against Austrian forces in northern Italy, in which his victory at Marengo (14 June 1800) forced them to retreat from that peninsula.

The negotiations concluding that “War of the Second Coalition” (the First Coalition collapsed in 1797) left Britain still at war with France. However, even that country gave up the anti-French cause soon after, in the Peace of Amiens, 25 March 1802.

Napoleon used the break in hostilities to institute legal reforms at home and further consolidate French political control in his recent conquests. Then tensions mounted over delays in the agreed British withdrawal from Malta and French withdrawal from Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. After 14 months of peace, Britain again declared war against France in May 1803.

Other feature articles including:

The Rise & Fall of Teotihuacán
The Irish Civil War: 1922–23
Red Dragon / Green Crescent: Potential War in the Pacific & Indian Oceans

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11/06/2024

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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #28
First Indochina War

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..The Big Picture

The First Indochina War is commonly called a guerrilla conflict, but it was a multi-dimensional conflict. The French Union and Viet Minh military commands understood that the concentration of sufficient conventional forces would determine the war’s outcome to deliver a decisive blow to their adversaries. Each side had distinct military advantages, contributing to the conflict’s complexity.

Paralleling the military aspect was the strategy of revolutionary warfare. Revolutionary warfare involved a wide range of operations, including propaganda, subversion, and the building of alternative political systems. The goal of revolutionary warfare was to mass mobilize the populace and undermine the enemy’s support from abroad. The payoff would be destroying the enemy’s ability to conduct military operations and turning the balance of forces.

The conflict in Indochina had far-reaching effects on the French and the United States armed forces. For the French, the war had a radicalizing effect, as they adapted the lessons from Indochina to their ensuing campaigns to preserve their African empire. These lessons would also play a role in the 1961 Army coup, which attempted to overthrow the French government over a perceived betrayal in the Algerian counterinsurgency. Meanwhile, the United States noted the lessons from the Indochina conflict, applying them in their subsequent strategy during the Vietnam War. While some of these lessons proved successful, others were not, and their impact on the war’s outcome remains a topic of debate to this day.

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10/28/2024

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World at War #99 - Magazine

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Italian Campaign, 1943–45

In late August 1943, Anglo-Allied senior leaders held the “Quadrant Conference” (aka the First Quebec Conference) to determine new strategic priorities for the war in Europe. Their militaries had just completed the liberation of Sicily, and a significant issue was the direction of future operations in the Mediterranean. In the aftermath of the Sicilian invasion, a coup had removed Benito Mussolini as dictator of Italy. The new government then negotiated an armistice with the Allies...

Other articles:
US Carrier Raids Early in 1942
Soviet Mechanization in 1941
Japan’s Operation Fu-Go

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09/17/2024

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Korea The Mobile War.. There was a dissenting view from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Gen. Omar Bradley. He warned that a total US withdrawal from the peninsula would be tantamount to inviting an invasion by the DPRK. However, in that event, he recommended only that US airpower be used to attack communist forces in support of RoK resistance on the ground and to cover the evacuation of American nationals.

In February 1950, Mao and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin agreed on a plan for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan to finish off the Nationalist regime that was holed up there. However, when Truman publicly committed the Pacific Fleet to block any such move, the two communist dictators had to look elsewhere for further opportunities to expand their power...

Other feature articles including:

The Battle of Tours: Facts & Suppositions
The Battle of Las Guasimas: 24 June 1898
The 1945 Soviet Vienna Offensive

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08/24/2024

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World at War #98 - Magazine

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Case Blue, Stalingrad 1942

The German invasion of the Soviet Union began on 22 June 1941 under the codename Operation Barbarossa. Three army groups drove east toward Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov. Within that framework, Army Group South’s (AGS) objectives were economic: the resources of Ukraine and the Don River basin (“Donbas”). The latter area was not only agriculturally rich but also held large amounts of iron ore, coal and factories to process them. An objective within the Donbas was Rostov, the gateway to a further advance to the Caucasus Mountain oil region.
On 17 November 1941, Army Group South captured Rostov, but a Soviet counteroffensive threw the Germans back out of the city two weeks later. Meanwhile, Army Group North (AGN) was stopped in front of Leningrad, while Army Group Center (AGC) was stopped in front of Moscow.

Other articles:
The Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Operation Crusader
Germany’s War Machine

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08/15/2024

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Strategy & Tactics Quarterly #27
Grant's Overland Campaign

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The American Civil War was nearing the end of its third year in March 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant came to Washington DC. On the strength of successes in the war’s western theater he had been made the Union Army’s highest-ranking officer, known officially as Commanding General of the United States Army and colloquially as General-in-Chief. His brief from President Abraham Lincoln was massive yet simple: crush the Confederacy to end the war. One of the resulting efforts to carry out that mission was a drive to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond and destroy the army protecting it. The first portion of this drive is known as either the “Overland Campaign” or the “Forty Days,” the latter arising from the dates ascribed to the campaign—4 May through 12 June—in the postwar Official Records. The campaign differed from those earlier in the war, largely due to the impact of Grant.

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08/08/2024

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Strategty & Tactics #348 - Magazine

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The Siege of Jerusalem: AD 70

In 63 BC Judea became a client state of Rome, ruled for them by kings from the native Herodian dynasty. Starting in AD 6, the Romans took more direct control, converting Judea into a province in which prefects and procurators appointed by the emperor had final authority. That set in motion the events resulting in the Judean revolt, and within it one of the greatest sieges of all times.

Other feature articles including:
The Battle of Lake Okeechobee: 25 December 1837
The ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ Infantry Regiment
The Berlin Airlift

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07/19/2024

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06/27/2024

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World at War #97 - Magazine

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Army Group North, 1941

Adolf Hi**er initiated planning for the invasion of the Soviet Union on 21 July 1940. He did so immediately after the Soviet occupation of the Romanian border province of Bessarabia, which put their tanks within 100 miles of the vital Ploesti oilfield. The Fuehrer began by ordering army commander-in-chief Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch to provide a study on the requirements for such a campaign. The objectives he wanted secured included effectively destroying all of the Red Army in western Russia and occupying territory there in sufficient depth to prevent the enemy air force from attacking Ploesti and German industry. In turn, the field marshal delegated Brig. Gen. Erich Marcks to work out the details.

Other articles:
MacArthur’s Best General: George Kenney
Gen. Wever’s Vision for the Luftwaffe
Operation Torch

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06/18/2024

Strategy & Tactics Quarterly | Feedback Survey

We are surveying with a multi-round proposal system (like our game design proposal system). Authors are invited to submit proposals for STQ issues with brief outlines of the focus of their in-depth look at the proposed topic or subject. This way, readers will have an opportunity to consider the author’s perspective focus in their choices (and can provide feedback about the topic and the presentation at the beginning of the projects).

We are conducting this preliminary round to reduce the proposals to four to five finalists in each of the four categories. The final round will appear in a future S&T Quarterly issue.

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06/08/2024

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05/20/2024

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Strategty & Tactics #347 - Magazine

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Operation Holland: The Battle of the Bulge That Might Have Been

No matter the difficulties involved, by the autumn of 1944 it was clear to Hi**er was some great battlefield victory was the essential prerequisite to successful negotiations for an overall settlement of the war that would allow him to remain alive and in power. One plan he considered was Operation Holland, which would have sent his forces striking from the Roermund area 78 miles over open country to Antwerp.

Other feature articles including:
The Warlord Cao Cao
The Dade Massacre
The Battle of Ap Bac

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