Announcements

Attn: Chicago Area and Southern Wisconsin Shooters

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On Aug. 15 & 16 there will be a two-day rifle marksmanship clinic at the Kenosha County Range in Bristol, WI (about 60 miles North of Chicago):

The Appleseed Program is designed to take you from being a simple rifle owner to being a true rifleman. All throughout American history, the rifleman has been defined as a marksman capable of hitting a man-sized target from 500 yards away — no ifs, ands or buts about it. This 500-yard range is traditionally known as “the rifleman’s quarter-mile;” a rifleman can hit just about any target he can see. This skill was particulary evident in the birth of our country, and was the difference in winning the Revolutionary War.

See this web page for more information.

(The Appleseed Program is a project of the Revolutionary War Veterans Association.)

This looks like a fun event!

Early Notice: Thomas E. Ricks at the Pritzker Military Library on September 10, 2009.

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Thomas E. Ricks will be in Chicago at the Pritzker Military Library to discuss this most recent book The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008. The event will be free and open to the public.

Ricks is the author of the widely-acclaimed book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, e.g. this review.

Ricks is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

Ricks has a blog, The Best Defense.

I hope to read The Gamble before the date, and I plan to attend the event.

I hope the weather is better than the downpour on the night that David Kilcullen spoke at the PML.

Service Interruption

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Chicagoboyz may be out of service intermittently tonight as I perform system maintenance.

Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE: Done!

UPDATE2: Character-encoding issue is fixed.

Xenophon’s Anabasis, Schedule for Roundtable This Fall

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Xenophon

We will be using the translation of Xenophon’s Anabasis of Cyrus by Wayne Ambler. Mr. Ambler’s translation received several good reviews, including this one in Military Review.

I will post our list of contributors, and the “mission order” for the roundtable closer to the start date.

The schedule for posts will be as follows:

Week of September 13, 2009: Posts re: Books I, II, III and IV
Week of September 20, 2009: Posts re:Books V, VI and VII
Week of September 27, 2009: “Wrap up” Posts: Opinions, Analysis, Conclusions.