Dr. Gregory F. Withrow

World War II historian currently writing Wayward Javelins: US Gliders from Sicily to Normandy.

Adjunct Professor at Young Harris College

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

Katja Hoyer’s “Weimar” is a powerful and detailed reconstruction of a “stark and terrifying example of a collapsed democracy”. Brilliant review of WEIMAR in The Wall Street Journal @WSJ! 😁🥳
https://t.co/wnK64mRgWI

[Dr. Gregory F. Withrow @GregoryFWithrow]

For all my friends 'Down Under' in Oz, please order this and have a Vegemite sandwich while reading:

https://t.co/lKrC9faIFq

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

Inside Ukrainian offensive pushing Russia back - with Starlink playing a key role
https://t.co/AbnYbf0t2l

[Dr. Gregory F. Withrow @GregoryFWithrow]

For all my friends 'Down Under' in Oz, please order this and have a Vegemite sandwich while reading:

https://t.co/lKrC9faIFq

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

Boxer ruled out of cavalry role as variants shelved https://t.co/8HfURD1OL7

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

Britons must prepare to make sacrifices for war, head of the British Army warns https://t.co/2zzby398WS

[Dr. Gregory F. Withrow @GregoryFWithrow]

@militaryhistori @Pastpreservers Betrayal of the United States and Western liberal democratic ideals. Blatant undermining of the struggle for freedom.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Mary Lindell trained with MI9 before returning to occupied France by Lysander in October 1942.

She later helped Herbert Hasler and Bill Sparks, the Cockleshell Heroes, to escape.

[Dr Philip W Blood @HistorianBlood]

#BattleofAachen
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[Dr. Gregory F. Withrow @GregoryFWithrow]

For all my Romanian friends . . .
https://t.co/NxmCrzrzyB

[Dr. Gregory F. Withrow @GregoryFWithrow]

Twilight 2000: Operation Reset - and your current reality . . .

Parental Guidance Warning: This post contains geopolitical analysis.

One of my favorite roleplaying games is Twilight 2000, a post-apocalyptic military tabletop role-playing game published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1984-- while I was a junior in high school. You know GDW, the folks that brought you Traveller: Science-fiction Adventure in the Far Future.

The setting for the original Twilight 2000, is or was at that time, a modern-day Europe in the aftermath of conflict that saw the Cold War turn hot--witnessing the use of nuclear, chemical, biological and even good-old conventional weapons.

Through the years, more editions followed.

Of course, the Cold War dissipated under a crashing wave of freedom, or did it?

In 2000, Free League Publishing, based in Stockholm, obtained the license and created a new version where the Soviet Union survives the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tensions still rise and violence breaks out in central Europe in 1998. The game was released in November 2021 under the name Twilight: 2000 – Roleplaying in the World War III That Never Was, taking place in two settings of Sweden and Poland.

Expansions were to follow but Free League Publishing held up promotion and public-facing marketing because the game's premise—Russian/Soviet forces fighting a catastrophic war in Poland and Europe that develops into World War III—suddenly felt uncomfortably close to events occurring in Ukraine with the full-blown invasion of the former Soviet state by Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation forces in February 2022.

Perhaps you are familiar with Vladimir Putin? He is the maniacal ruler attempting to restore a Slavic empire due to uncontrollable ego.

Hostile Waters, Urban Operations, and The Black Madonna did emerge as game-supporting supplements despite the obviously increasing tension in Europe.

Contrary to Putin's efforts to stifle NATO, the alliance ironically expanded within two years of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, adding Sweden and Norway.

Free League Publishing is now creating another new expansion for Twilight 2000, Operation Reset. Availability has been pushed back until March 2027.

The new campaign reportedly centers on a devastated Warsaw and Stockholm, harkening to original Game Designers' Workshop supplement Ruins of Warsaw.

Perhaps we will see Operation Reset if a very real Twilight 2027 doesn't manifest in our current realm of existence.

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
https://t.co/KBAPc7iLkt

[Phil Jackson @PhilJax11]

Pedantic I know, but that's 11th armoured division, 8th Corp, they achieved all their objectives on the right flank of 30 Corp, liberating many towns along the way.

[Dr. Gregory F. Withrow @GregoryFWithrow]

For all my friends in Danemark, here is a local seller of my forthcoming book!

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[Dr. Gregory F. Withrow @GregoryFWithrow]

For all my friends in the land of the Tulpenfelds, here is a local outlet to order my forthcoming book!

https://t.co/raa5fbVv6h

[Dr Victoria Taylor 💛💙✈ @SpitfireFilly]

Great to see the #EagleDays paperback copy available to buy in @Hatchards! The US paperback version is also now available for sale 🥰

@HoZ_Books @GeorginaCapel @alexkf11990

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Joy Lofthouse flew Spitfires in the Second World War.

One of the pioneering women pilots.

She was incredible: