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 B view:Because the Soviets were spending so much, they probably could not spend more. This...
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Ralph, in comments to the Great Gamble review: Soviet casualties and aircraft losses (reported thru military channels to the General Staff) were much lower than what is popularly believed. The.
As conditions have deteriorated in Afghanistan in the past several years, academic and military specialists have paid greater attention to the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
Nicholas Thompson'sThe Hawk and the Dove is an exceptionally readable dual biography of George Kennan and Paul Nitze. George Kennan is, to some, rather an odd dove; he helped formulate the vision of containment that led to NSC-68 and militarized confrontation between the United States...
Jeffrey Herf has taken to The New Republic in an effort to convince Americans that negotiations will go nowhere unless we threaten Tehran with an extensive bombing campaign. Herf is.
Ahem:In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow dissuaded him by patiently explaining how the.
This (the claim that the CIA's top spy in Russia in the 1980s was a double) is interesting, but I guess I don't understand why, if Tolkachev were really working for the KGB, he was executed by the Soviets in 1986.
Alex Harrowell has a couple of interesting posts on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, one at Fistful of Euros and the other at Yorkshire Ranter. The point is essentially this;.
A correspondent points out this fantastic blog about the American Expeditionary Force Siberia. AEF Siberia was part of the effort by Britain, France, the United States, and Japan to strangle.
Bob Bateman writes:True, it was once a powerful force, and feared by NATO. But the salient point is why the Soviet Navy was feared. It was not because it could project power far from Russia's shores. That has never been a capability the Soviet fleet...
Pavel Podvig has a fabulous article in the Summer 2008 IS on the development of Soviet nuclear doctrine and force structure in the 1970s:The data presented here demonstrate that concerns.
For some unfathomable reason I was reading the January 2006 issue of Military History today at the gym, and came upon a pretty good article about the Battle of Suomussalmi,.