Fiction
John Wayne's Place List of Military Movies.
The movies on this list helped create our image of what a soldier is and what war is like. For better and worse, rich in laconic bravery, cruelly bowdlerized of war's problems, these movies have shaped attitudes in the minds of many of the world's soldiers and decisionmakers for over fifty years now.
Review Date: 6/22/02 Site Type:Essays-Biography
Whose Site is it?
Ratings Coolness factor:4 Credibility:8 Look:7 Information Depth:5
Special Law Enforcement Department Simulator
GURPS-based role-playing game system with a leeetle bitty twist. Sure, you get to fantasy role play in a world of super powers, playing cop hunting bad guys but...super strength doesn't protect you from lawsuits if a perp goes through a shop window. And you better file on time for your uniform allowance; you've been transferred to a field unit. Better download your paperwork here now recruit, fill 'em out, learn the regs, before you get in trouble.
While created as a police simulation, much of the system was based on years of study of US military procedures, language, even typeface and logo design. If for some odd reason you want to know what the everyday life of a soldier is like, this is as close as you're ever gonna get.
So what are you still standing there for, boy? You're late for unit review! Hustle your ass!
Review Date: 6/12/02 Site Type:Organization
Whose Site is it? Ionic Productions
Ratings Coolness factor:9 Credibility:9 Look:3 Information Depth:10
Geopolitics
CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
An unusually open look at intelligence gathering and its history. Notable as the home page of the journal Studies In Intelligence
Review Date: 5/12/02 Site Type:Academic-Subject
Whose Site is it? The CIA
Ratings Coolness factor:7 Credibility:6 Look:8 Information Depth:9
The CIA
Come on, you know what this is and what it will be like. My favorite tidbit: CIA Home Page for Kids
Review Date: 5/12/02 Site Type:Organization
Whose Site is it? The CIA
Ratings Coolness factor:3 Credibility:5 Look:4 Information Depth:7
Strategic Forecasting
Geopolitics served up fresh (and tasty?) daily. This is a good place for briefings on what is happening in world politics, filtered through a World Bank/IMF/Chase Manhattan world view, of course.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Analysis
Whose Site is it? STRATFOR
Ratings Coolness factor:6 Credibility:7 Look:8 Information Depth:8
History
Guadalcanal campaign history
Detailed, day by day and point by point history of the US assault on Guadalcanal.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:History-Event
Whose Site is it? wouldja believe the South Carolina Ducks?
Ratings Coolness factor:9 Credibility:10 Look:6 Information Depth:10
HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web
Wonderfully deep set of documents about and from WWI, all done by one guy working on a shoestring. Huh, kinda sounds like your's truly.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Compilation
Whose Site is it? Hyperwar Project
Ratings Coolness factor:10 Credibility:10 Look:6 Information Depth:10
A History of Secret Human Experimentation
A brief timeline of the ethical wasteland of surreptitious human experimentation, calmly allowing the relentless succession of concentration camp with Tuskegee experiment with radiation tests to make their own case. Unfortunately, quite a few of these bear the fingerprints of our military.
Review Date: 6/14/02 Site Type:Compilation
Whose Site is it?
Ratings Coolness factor:6 Credibility:7 Look:3 Information Depth:5
Links to Less Traveled Sites Dealing With War and Military Affairs
"This page represents a subject of fundamental importance to military historians. War and peace are sides of a coin. One cannot be understood in isolation from the other. These links serve as an introduction to that less viewed side."
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Compilation
Whose Site is it? Ohio State College of Humanities
Ratings Coolness factor:9 Credibility:8 Look:8 Information Depth:10
New York Military Affairs Symposium
If you're in New York, drop by their talks. Otherwise, drop by the site. Good reference materials and a deep level of detail.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Organization
Whose Site is it? NYMAS
Ratings Coolness factor:5 Credibility:9 Look:6 Information Depth:7
9.11 Memorial Site
The best September 11th memorial I've seen yet, with a dignified and remarkably complete compilation of references to those who died as a result of that day's terrorist attacks
Review Date: 6/8/02 Site Type:History-Event
Whose Site is it? Badasschick.com
Ratings Coolness factor:10 Credibility:8 Look:10 Information Depth:10
The Western Way of War - Links
Syllabus for a course on warfare. Make your way through the readings on this syllabus and you'ld certainly be better informed that most of the people we send to DC.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Academic-Subject
Whose Site is it? Princeton University
Ratings Coolness factor:8 Credibility:8 Look:3 Information Depth:8
Reference
America's Wars Fact Sheet
Statistics on number who served, casualties, and overall human costs of American wars
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Reference Index
Whose Site is it? US Department of Veteran's Affairs
Ratings Coolness factor:7 Credibility:8 Look:2 Information Depth:8
Battle and Campaign Atlas Index
Oh yeah! Need a map of a famous conflict? Check these out. Now if only every product of our tax dollars was this good quality.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Compilation
Whose Site is it? United States Military Academy
Ratings Coolness factor:7 Credibility:9 Look:8 Information Depth:10
Documents In Military History
Doesn't look like much, but click on any link and you'll get the point. From Andorra to Vatican City, from Paine's Age of Reason to the authorization of the Office Of Homeland Security, they've got the goods.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Compilation
Whose Site is it? Yale University & NY Mil Affairs Symposium
Ratings Coolness factor:8 Credibility:10 Look:2 Information Depth:10
Reed&Wright
Don't forget what's available right here. check out our online timeline of US military combat actions. Or, for a more complete and comprehensive view, buy our timeline poster.
I can honestly say that, having seen and worked with the timelines of the Marine Corps, the Congressional Research Service, the New York Times, and many others, we really are just flat out the best. Most complete. Best indexed. Most balanced.
And, oh yeah, a local veteran's group just ordered a hundred of them.
Review Date: 6/22/02 Site Type:Reference Index
Whose Site is it? "Reed & Wright, publishers and providers of structured data"
Ratings Coolness factor:8 Credibility:9 Look:4 Information Depth:6
The Soldier's Perspective
Marine Corps Association
For and in large part by Marines. Home of Leatherneck, which is a unique resource for the field marine's perspective on the American military, past and present.
Review Date: 6/14/02 Site Type:Organization
Whose Site is it? Marine Corps Assoc.
Ratings Coolness factor:6 Credibility:8 Look:6 Information Depth:9
Minerva-Women in the Military
Not as online-oriented as one would hope, this is still a good starting point for those interested in organizational and gender issues in the military.
Review Date: 6/14/02 Site Type:Magazine
Whose Site is it? "H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State Univ."
Ratings Coolness factor:6 Credibility:9 Look:3 Information Depth:6
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