David C. Isby
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David C. Isby

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David C. Isby is a game designer, author, attorney, and national security consultant. He has written or edited 20 books and over 350 articles on national security, including three books on Afghanistan. He is also a former correspondent for Jane's Intelligence Review. In 1970, he became the first employee of Poultron Press which went on to become Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) where often worked as a game…

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researcher and developer. He was also an editor of Strategy & Tactics. Isby has testified before both House and Senate committees, has appeared on many television news programs, and has lectured at many military colleges. Since 1980 he has done extensive research on Afghanistan and was even condemned by the Soviet government for his writings on the subject as a "bourgeois falsifier of history" and "a CIA agent... with whom accounts will be settled."

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To the Green Fields Beyond: The Battle of Cambrai, 1917 box cover To the Green Fields Beyond: The Battle of Cambrai, 1917 · 1978
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Soldiers: Tactical Combat in 1914-15 box cover Soldiers: Tactical Combat in 1914-15 · 1972
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Tannenberg and the Opening Battles in the East 1914 box cover Tannenberg and the Opening Battles in the East 1914 · 1978
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Marengo: Napoleon in Italy, 14 June 1800 box cover Marengo: Napoleon in Italy, 14 June 1800 · 1975
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Wargame Design box cover Wargame Design · 1977
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Air War: Modern Tactical Air Combat box cover Air War: Modern Tactical Air Combat · 1977
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The Great War in the East: Four World War 1 Battles box cover The Great War in the East: Four World War 1 Battles · 1978
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Four Battles in North Africa box cover Four Battles in North Africa · 1976
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Napoleon at War: Four Battles box cover Napoleon at War: Four Battles · 1975
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Cambrai, 1917: The First Blitzkrieg 1974 0
Crusader: Battle for Tobruk, November 1941 1976 0
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Mukden: Sino-Soviet Combat in the '70's 1975 0
Invasion: Sicily – Alexander vs Kesselring 1974 0
Lee vs. Meade: The Battle of Gettysburg 1974 0
Saratoga: 1777 – Burgoyne vs Gates 1974 0
Sixth Fleet: US/Soviet Naval Operations in the Mediterranean in the 1970's 1975 0
The Great War in the East: 1914-1918 (Second Edition) 1998 0
Air War '80 1979 0
Brandy Station: Clash of Cavalry 1976 0
Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge 1975 0
Missile Boat: Tactical Combat On, Over and Beneath the Sea 1964-1984 1974 0
Rommel: The War for North Africa 1974 0
Napoleon's Last Campaigns 1974 0