title; length including sidebars; subject; when written and fate. ST = Strategy and Tactics magazine.
Long Articles
The Terror War ; about 12,000 words; about urban guerrilla warfare movements and urban terrorism. Finished summer 1993, saw print in ST #166, February 1994.
Apocalypse Next: Peru ; about 11,000 words; about the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement in Peru. Finished spring 1994, saw print in Strategy & Tactics (ST) #179, November 1996.
From the Barrel of a Gun: A Political History of the Chinese People�s Liberation Army ; about 9,000 words; history of the involvement of the PLA in Chinese politics and vice versa 1949-90. Written fall 1995, published in ST #184 (August 1997).
Springtime of the Peoples ; about 12,000 words; on the European revolutions of 1848 in France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Written winter 1996; published in ST #186 (December 1997).
Paris in the Spring: The Commune of 1871"; about 13,000 words; on the Commune�s rise and fall. Written winter 1996, published in ST #187 (February 1998).
Peng-Nan: China�s Revolutionary Wars ; about 14,000 words; on the various revolutionary wars fought in China 1927-49. Written summer 1996; published in ST#188 (April 1998)
The First Indochina War: about 12,000 words; on the 1946-54 colonial war the French fought in Vietnam. Written summer 1997; saw print in ST #191 (August 1998).
Live Free or Die Fighting: about 7,000 words, on Nestor Makhno and the RIA of the Ukraine. Written April 1999: saw print in ST #201 (August 2000).
Jatkosota - Finland�s �Continuation War� against Russia, 1941-44: about 8,000 words, on the same subject. Written June 1999: saw print in S&T #199 (May 2000).
The Development of the Canadian Army, 1660-1900: As described, about 7,500 words. Written early 2004: published in S&T #226 (December 2004).
The French and Indian War, 1754-60: about 9,000 words. Written May-June 2005; saw print in ST #231 (September 2005) where it was published in two parts (The French & Indian War and Battles of the French and Indian War). Voted 2nd Best Article of 2005!
The Spanish Civil War: A Strategic Analysis. 9,300 words. Written December-January 2009; saw print in World at War #8 (October 2009).
The China Incident: A Strategic Analysis. 7,600 words. On the 1937-41 phase of the conflict. Written January 2009; saw print in ST #259 (October 2009)
The Greek Civil War. 5,000 words. Covers period 1944-49. Written July-August 2009; for World at War #14 (October 2010)
How Not To Do It: The Raid on Dieppe, 1942. 8,000 words. On the disastrous cross-Channel raid. Written December 2009; for ST #265. (October 2010)
Short Articles
Kaiten: about 1,500 words; about the ineffectual Japanese suicide submarine program at the end of WW II. Written fall 1993, saw print in Command magazine #32 in spring 1995.
The South African Defence Forces Today ; about 2,000 words; short description of the SADF and its likely conflict scenarios in the near future. Written early 1994, published summer 1995 in ST #175.
Nuclear Weapons in the Korean War ; about 3,000 words; on why the Americans planned to but ultimately didn�t use atomic bombs in the Korean War. Written winter 1995; saw print in ST #178 (August 1996).
The Bonus Army of 1932; about 2,500 words; short article on bizarre incident during the Great Depression in the USA when an army of unemployed veterans gathered in Washington to demand help and were scattered by troops led by General Douglas Macarthur, Major Dwight Eisenhower, and Major George Patton. Written late 1995, saw print in ST #179 (November 1996).
Pu Yi and Manzhouguo ; about 3,000 words; on the Last Emperor of China and the bizarre puppet kingdom the Japanese created for him in Manchuria. Written summer 1995; published in ST #184 (August 1997).
The Pentomic Division ; about 2,000 words; short article on US Army experiment to reorganize their combat divisions for nuclear warfare in the 1950s. Written winter 1995, saw print in ST 194 (May 1999). With additions by Joe Miranda.
The Kronstadt Uprising; about 2,000 words; short article on the anti-Bolshevik uprising at the naval fortress outside St. Petersburg/Petrograd in 1921. Written winter 1995, sent to Command in July 1998 after being �lost� several times by ST�s FYI editor. Finally published in Command #54 (November 2000).
The Canadian Forces Today ; about 2,000 words; on the current status of the Canadian Armed Forces. Written fall 1995; saw print in ST #191 (August 1998).
The Last Campaign: Manchuria 1945; about 3,000 words; on the one-week campaign by the USSR to smash the Japanese armies in Manchuria in the last weeks of WW II. Written fall 1996, published in ST #190 (June 1998?).
The Commonwealth Division in Korea ; about 1,800 words; on the composite British/Canadian/Australian division that sat around in Korea for two years without doing much. Written spring 1997; saw print in ST 195 (August 1999).
"Habbakuk, the Frozen Carrier": about 1,200 words; about the eccentric British inventor Geoffrey Pyke and his plan to build 2-million-ton carriers and transports out of frozen ice and wood pulp. Written March 1998; sent to Command and published in #54 (November 2000).
�The South African National Defence Force�: about 1,200 words; substantial rewrite and update of earlier SADF article. Written June 1998; saw print in ST 194 (May 1999).
So there you have it. I have also written stacks and stacks of game reviews, game variants, extended in-jokes, and other things, besides editing Strategist, the newsletter of the Strategy Gaming Society, for a year. Didn't get paid for any of it except for trades and egoboo. It's a hobby that pays for itself, more or less.
(March, 2010)