I don't like it much either, but my mom hates war, and my little brother barly wants to play it at all anyway. I need to find somewhere near me I can just meet with people to play games.

In my experience, the main skills involved are planning, anticipating your opponents' moves, and most importantly, being able to adjust your plan if things go wrong (bad luck with the dice and/or an unexpected card set from an opponent). The biggest mistake poor Risk players often make - and I should know, I've been one myself for a long time - is to remain hell-bent on carrying out their original plan when it has failed, rather than regrouping and considering alternatives. It's a sure-fire way to get wiped out quickly.

Not to mention attacking until you only have 1 or 2 men left on your front lines.

Or attacking with front-line forces in the first place.

Well, It's kind of hard to attack with troops behind the frontline...

If you're doing it right, you'll be attacking with troops behind your enemy's front line.

True. It's great fun to punch through and start hitting all the territories with only 1 soldier.

Ah, I remember the time one soldier in southeastern NA held that land against a twenty man army. It became dubbed the "Punk with a BB Gun."