LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles publisher that made its fortune on the dreams of armchair musclemen everywhere now wants to get Americans pumped up on a new avocation -- becoming armchair generals.
Eric Weider, whose family firm sold mainstream America on bodybuilding and Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Tuesday launched Armchair General, an "interactive" war magazine aimed at selling military history to the masses.
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Weider is proudest of an interactive feature that will appear each month called "What Next, General?" in which readers fight historic battles as if they were one of the generals.
The magazine will also review war-related video games and films, preview futuristic weaponry, and include features on how history's foot soldiers were armed and equipped.http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=4277003More than ever, I'm convinced TIIC are trying to make the American people complicit in their holy war dreams and other diseases.