Cuban Missile Crisis Anniversary: Discovery
From the moment the first ships of the Anadyr deployment fleet left their moorings, they sailed straight into a network …
From the moment the first ships of the Anadyr deployment fleet left their moorings, they sailed straight into a network …
“This is the only time I have been congratulated for losing ships. . . .”
– Cdre. Cecil Reyne, commander …
Operation Anadyr, named after a river in Far Eastern Russia, was the largest out-of-area deployment ever made by the Soviets, …
Finland has a large coastline and hundreds of islands, and just a small Navy to protect the littoral waters in …
As many problems as Nikita Khrushchev had in early 1962, another was beginning to fester in the one foothold he …
It was a hairy rescue that began ordinarily enough.
First Lieutenant Charles H. Field was the pilot of the 3rd …
From the first combat aircraft of World War I to the early days of the Korean War, the most-used and …
“The mantra is: ‘Do or Die.’ We shall either free India or die in the attempt.”
—Mahandas Gandhi
In the …
To support the B-29 Superfortress armada gathered on Guam, Saipan and Tinian – and to make their own, unique contribution …
As if the unequal East-West strategic nuclear forces balance was not enough of a problem, Nikita Khrushchev was also dealing …