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	Little Wars
		True, they wrote of fantastical journeys to the moon, of fantastic futures, but they were merely writing in a fantastic mode, a legitimate form of literature, a form which was conceived neither as a genre nor a marketing category until centuries after their deaths.
		Miniatures, still known in Britain as war games, a term reserved in the States mainly for board wargaming, remains a thriving pastime in both nations; and miniatures gave direct birth to the board wargame and to roleplaying, and indirect birth to computer gaming and collectors card gaming.
		The fact, therefore, that I am capable of summarizing the rules to Little Wars in two sentences, is to be considered an illustration of commendable concision, rather than condemnable oversimplification.
	www.costik.com /littlewars.html (1157 words)

	Little Wars
		Moreover, to put an end to that little resistant body of men behind a house, we required that after a gun had been fired it should remain, without alteration of the elevation, pointing in the direction of its last shot, and have two men placed one on either side of the end of its trail.
		All sorts of odd little difficulties arose too, connected with the use of the guns as a shelter from fire, and very exact rules had to be made to avoid tilting the nose and raising the breech of a gun in order to use it as cover.
		He sent forward a feeble little infantry attack, that we cut up with the utmost ease, taking several prisoners, made a disastrous demonstration from the church, and then fell back altogether from the gentle hill on which Hook Farm is situated to a position beside and behind an exposed cottage on the level.
	www.erdweb.com /floorwars/litwars.html (12455 words)

	Little Wars, by (H)erbert (G)eorge Wells
		Then the curtains are drawn back and the hostile forces come within sight of each other; the little companies and squadrons and batteries appear hurrying to their positions, the infantry deploying into long open lines, the cavalry sheltering in reserve, or galloping with the guns to favourable advance positions.
		Little toy Army Service waggons can be bought, and it could be ruled that troops must have one such waggon for every fifty men within at least six moves.
		Of course, while in Little Wars there are only three or four players, in any proper Kriegspiel the game will go on over a larger area--in a drill-hall or some such place--and each arm and service will be entrusted to a particular player.
	www.chakoten.dk /little_wars.html (14500 words)

	Little Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moreover, to put an end to that little resistant body of men behind a house, we required that after a gun had been fired it should remain, without alteration of the elevation, pointing in the direction of its last shot, and have two men placed one on either side of the end of its trail.
		All sorts of odd little difficulties arose too, connected with the use of the guns as a shelter from fire, and very exact rules had to be made to avoid tilting the nose and raising the breech of a gun in order to use it as cover.
		He sent forward a feeble little infantry attack, that we cut up with the utmost ease, taking several prisoners, made a disastrous demonstration from the church, and then fell back altogether from the gentle hill on which Hook Farm is situated to a position beside and behind an exposed cottage on the level.
	www.locksley.com /toysoldier/littwars.htm (12566 words)

	Play This Thing! \| Game Reviews \| Free Games \| Independent Games \| Game Culture
		Indeed, it is hardly to be questioned that Little Wars was conceived as an amusing conceit, something tossed off amidst work on the serious (and even now, highly regarded) novels that were his life work.
		Little Wars was no best-seller, by the terms of its era; yet the spirit of the age certainly offered it an audience.
		In it its era of publication, the "future war" novel was popular not only in Britain but also in France and the United States; it generally portrayed the conquest of the nation of the author by some antagonistic state (usually Germany for the British or French, some Asiatic menace for the US).
	playthisthing.com /little-wars (1290 words)

	Fighting Terrorism and "Dirty Little Wars
		Secondly, according to Mao Tse-tung, the essence of war is to preserve oneself and annihilate the enemy.
		The "dirty little conflicts" of our time are not pretty, but they are critical to Western security, and if we abrogate our ability to engage in low-level conflict, we lose our capability to check Soviet expansion and maintain a world order compatible with our national interests and security.
		War is the one activity where moderation is no virtue, yet many of our nation's leaders often seem more upset by abuses of human rights on the part of nations combating terrorist outbreaks than by the original terrorist outrages that precipitated the embattled government's reaction.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1984/mar-apr/livingstone.html (5787 words)

	Bill Totten's Weblog: Little Big Wars
		Such is the conventional wisdom, which appeals not only to the neoconservative architects of the war but also to those liberals who supported military intervention on humanitarian grounds, and indeed, it cannot be denied that some of the administration's decisions were grotesquely ill judged.
		There has been a metamorphosis in the nature of war, and it is only to be expected that it should have generated a sizable literature that is keenly studied in military colleges throughout the world.
		This is an inversion of industrial war, where the objective was to win the trial of strength and thereby break the enemy's will." In other words, the battle for hearts and minds is not a peripheral activity that complements the use of force; it is the chief purpose for which force should be used.
	billtotten.blogspot.com /2007/07/little-big-wars.html (3486 words)

	Little Wars - History
		Nevertheless, Little Wars remains the foundation for the modern hobby of miniature war-gaming and many young Napoleons felt their first thrill of command after reading the enthusiastically written and charmingly illustrated Little Wars.
		When Elliott’s closed in 1997 due to intense super-store competition, Little Wars was reconfigured to include the bookstore’s popular military history and science fiction sections as powerful sidelines to their established trade in historical wargames, heroic fantasy games, paints and miniatures.
		Little Wars’ survival throughout the slow decline (and eventual disappearance) of Village Square Shopping Center proved its place as a destination store.
	www.littlewars.com /lw_index_history.htm (771 words)

	GameDev.net - Product Review - H G Wells' Little Wars
		The Appendix is an analysis of the existing military war games used for training purposes, which Wells' is reliably informed suffers somewhat in comparison with his own "Little Wars" design.
		"Little Wars" includes a number of photographic plates in its original book form and these are referred to in the text, so it is well worth searching for the PDF version; the illustrations are an important feature that is naturally lost in most ASCII-based e-text versions, such as that available from the Gutenberg Project.
		Of the two essays, "Little Wars" is by far the most interesting for the game designer as it deals directly with the actual process of game design, as well as including a fully-realised rule-set for a complete game.
	www.gamedev.net /features/reviews/productreview.asp?productid=538 (1472 words)

	Little Wars
		Little Wars, a set of miniatures rules by H. Wells, was first published in 1913 - just before World War I. (It has been reprinted periodically since then - I have a Dover edition from 1977, I think.)
		Most of the book tells about how he came to write the game, the evolution of the rules, some of his various battles, and essays on how playing with toy soldiers is so much better than the real thing.
		Little Wars as written isn't played much today, but can be fun if you get in the right mind-set.
	www.panix.com /~sos/mini/litwar.html (1077 words)

	Strange Little Wars \| MetaFilter
		Another article on the Brooks-Baxter War, which ultimately claimed 200 lives, and started with an armed coup by the losing candidate in a disputed election for the governor of Arkansas.
		Canada has also had some rather serious "little wars," and as we are but a little country they have had a dramatic (and underappreciated) impact on our history.
		The Rebellions of 1937 and 1838 led to the union of the Canadas and the institution of responsible government.
	www.metafilter.com /61851/Strange-Little-Wars (1358 words)

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		At first glance, it appears not too much is shaking in Gulu, until you notice the soldiers at the end of the runway, and the troops and truck on the road from the terminal.
		It's at night, of course, that the war arrives, and we won't be in Gulu at night.
		A persistent, bitter, insane and endless little war it is, one that gets even less Western press attention than the long-running evil in the Congo and the war north, in Sudan.
	www.strategypage.com /onpoint/articles/20021218.asp (697 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Retrogressive Little Wars: Honor Forgotten - David Fromkin
		For Americans, the life-or-death issues involved in the Cold War were overriding, often causing them to lose sight of the interests and objectives of the local parties to the conflict.
		The Hutu-Tutsi wars in Africa are tribal, while in Northern Ireland the natives are fighting a war of religion.
		History shows that a war between brothers, such as the American Civil War, can be a war to the death, and that a war between peoples totally unalike, such as Genghis Khan's Mongols or Tamerlane's Turkic tribesmen and the civilizations they burned to the ground, also can be a war to the death.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19980101fareviewessay1366/david-fromkin/retrogressive-little-wars-honor-forgotten.html (2240 words)

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		This continues a trend that began when the Cold War ended, and the Soviet Union no longer subsidized terrorist and rebel groups everywhere. The current wars are basically uprisings against police states or feudal societies, which are seen as out-of-step with the modern world.
		Thus, the current war on terror is, indeed, in the tradition of the Crusades.
		While causalities from terrorism are relatively few (usually 5,000-10,000 dead a year worldwide), the dead and wounded from all the other wars actually comprise about 95 percent of all the casualties. The Islamic terrorism looms larger because the terrorists threaten attacks everywhere, putting a much larger population in harms way, and unhappy with that.
	www.strategypage.com /qnd/wars/articles/20070617.aspx (2357 words)

	LibriVox » Little Wars, by H.G. Wells
		Little Wars (A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books) With an Appendix on Kriegspiel
		Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules.
		5: Appendix - Little Wars and Kriegspiel - 00:21:38
	librivox.org /little-wars-by-hg-wells (439 words)

	John Stathatos, "Piety & Impiety: The Little Spartan Wars"
		By this token, the artist's challenge to the bureaucrats of Strathclyde Region is not a piece of opportunistic street theatre but a reflection, albeit a partly symbolic one, of the principles espoused by the French revolutionaries commemorated in the garden's monuments and inscriptions.
		Finlay's response was matter-of-fact, refuting any suggestion that the Little Spartan conflict was deliberately provoked by him; this is clearly the retort of a man prepared to argue his case with bureaucracy, but oblivious of the fact that he is firing the opening salvo of a war now almost twenty years old:
		As a result, the artist is once again liable to the Region for a considerable sum, Little Sparta is closed to the public, and the Garden Temple itself is no more, having been formally reclassified at Finlay's request as a storeroom, to which purpose it has now been put.
	www.stathatos.net /pages/little_spartan_wars.html (2783 words)

	Little Wars
		"Little Wars" is a delightful book and an important socio-political work.
		Hopefully, in the not too distant future, "Little Wars" will once again be available in print so that everyone can enjoy the wit, wisdom and vision of Mr.
		Little Wars is used with permission of AP Watt Ltd, London
	www.gardenwargaming.com /wargame/intro.html (168 words)

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		But first let it be noted in passing that there were prehistoric "Little Wars." This is no new thing, no crude novelty; but a thing tested by time, ancient and ripe in its essentials for all its perennial freshness--like spring.
		V EXTENSIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS OF LITTLE WAR Now that battle of Hook's Farm is, as I have explained, a simplification of the game, set out entirely to illustrate the method of playing; there is scarcely a battle that will not prove more elaborate (and eventful) than this little encounter.
		Of course, while in Little Wars there are only three or four players, in any proper Kriegspiel the game will go on over a larger area--in a drill-hall or some such place--and each arm and service will be entrusted to a particular player.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext03/ltwrs11.txt (14120 words)

	Little Wars, by H.G. Wells Review -- May 23, 2004 :: d20 Magazine Rack :: Are You Game Enough?
		Little Wars is a miniatures combat game originally written by H.G. Wells in 1913!.
		Gygax speaks of his development of a war game before his ‘discovery’ of Little Wars and the impact that this title had on him and the development of his future products.
		Chapter five, Extensions and Amplifications of Little War, puts forth further options being as that very few games will ever be as simple as the basic rules and the scenario of Hook’s Farm.
	www.d20zines.com /html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1094&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1074 words)

	Psychic Wars
		does little to describe this anime, which is a 'standard' action title.
		There is little suspense to the outcome, and the animation, although not bad, does not portray the combat very dramatically.
		The violence is clean with little blood or gore.
	www.ex.org /3.5/27-anime_psychicwars.html (403 words)

	LITTLE WARS: Little Wars: Gathering of Tribes
		Quatre Bras- One of the "pre-battles" to Waterloo, Wellington is able to repulse Ney's combined arms attack and put himself in the position to control his destiny at Waterloo.
		Napoleonic War on the high seas- French and British sailors battle it out to control the trade routes and strategic coastal areas during the Napoleonic Wars.
		Napoleonic Wars on the Peninsula- On the 16th of May 1811, Soult engaged Marshal Beresford's Allied Spanish Army at Albuera, in an attempt to relieve the French garrison of the border fortress of Badajoz.
	littlewars.net /page/14i3c/Home/Gathering_of_Tribes.html (523 words)

	Rhizome \| Little Wars; the Carousel Project
		Little Wars; the Carousel Project” is based on the history of carousels (“little war” in Italian).
		War games such as jousting tournaments later developed into carousels which currently exists for us as rides and perhaps in the future as virtual reality.
		I first began “Little Wars” as a photographic portfolio and planned to combine digital photography with silicone intaglio and then animate the images using Macromedia Director (and later Premiere and Afftereffects).
	rhizome.org /object.php?46830 (505 words)

	H.G. Wells' "Little Wars"
		Though the book was published ten years after the death of the Queen Empress, its concept of warfare is still quite Victorian, the instructive horrors of WWI still lying, as they did, a year or two in the future.
		In the meantime, here are some images of the Major General's own original-edition copies of Little Wars and its lesser-known companion volume Floor Games.
		Richard Silvano's Little Wars - Victorian Era Wargame Rules site, features images of the rules section pages from Wells' book, complete with the wonderful marginal illustrations.
	www.zeitcom.com /majgen/98lwars.html (263 words)

	Splendid Little Wars Take Home
		Perceptions of Britain's small wars changed overtime during the long reign of Queen Victoria.
		The British believed during the First Afghan War that they had managed to subdue the Afghans.
		Britain's adventures in the Sudan against the Mahdi in the 1880s are very reminiscent of the War on Terrorism.
	www.esuhistoryprof.com /splendid_little_wars_take_home.htm (1017 words)

	AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - Wells und Little Wars
		Little Wars (A Game for Boys from Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for that more Intelligent Sort of Girl...)
		Little Wars A Game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.
		Little Wars: A Game for Boys from Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty...
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/Wells+/tn/+Little+Wars (1354 words)

	Little wars are still good for "business" but big wars are GREAT for business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Since you have journeyed this far into "Little Book III", you are, hopefully, aware that a few little problems exist for all the people of the "free world".
		Little wars are still good for "business" but big wars are GREAT for business.
		These wars are in the drug world (legal and illegal drugs), the war to save the environment, the war to prevent crime, the war against intolerance, all being broadcast loud, clear, and constantly by our assinine media.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /truth/chapter7.htm (765 words)

	Amazon.com: Little Wars: Books: H.G. Wells,Gary Gygax,Michael J. Varhola,Diane K. Varhola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wells wrote a ground-breaking work when he penned Little Wars, which started the hobby of military miniatures war-gaming.
		Little Wars will appeal to science fiction fans, history buffs, students of politics and international affairs, wargamers and RPGers, and anyone interested in the other works of this great author.
		"Little Wars" is the game of the kings-for players in an inferior social position.
	www.amazon.com /Little-Wars-H-G-Wells/dp/0972251154 (505 words)

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