Very interesting.
On the twitters last night, I was wondering when the term "Bolsheviki" declined vis-a-vis "Bolshevik." I assumed it was around 1930 or so. I still have no idea why the.
Joshua Rubenstein provides a nice, quick overview to the life of Leon Trotsky that I would recommend for anyone interested in learning a bit more about this enigmatic figure of.
I'm getting to this debate late, but my understanding of the situation (informed by Dima Adamsky's book, among others) is that revolution in military affairs (RMA) theory developed in the.
One of my colleagues at Patterson threw this together for a presentation to his Economic Statecraft class: GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2005 international $) 1990 2008 Percent change, 1990-2008.
I'm in the midst of Charles Tripp's excellent A History of Iraq, and I'm curious about the Russian interest in Persian Gulf stability during the war. The Soviets played footsie.
The building blocks of the Afghan National Army:The Afghan government is dominated by former mujahedeen guerrillas; both the minister of defense and the army chief of staff are former anti-Soviet.
David Frum compares the conventional and Team B views of Soviet military spending and arms control.The conventional view:The Soviets could increase their arms spending, therefore arms control was worthwhile.The Team.
