Cuban Missile Crisis: Consensus, Announcement and DEFCON-2
The two weeks following the discovery of a Soviet R-12/SS-4 Sandal Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) regiment in Western Cuba …
The two weeks following the discovery of a Soviet R-12/SS-4 Sandal Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) regiment in Western Cuba …
From the moment the first ships of the Anadyr deployment fleet left their moorings, they sailed straight into a network …
Operation Anadyr, named after a river in Far Eastern Russia, was the largest out-of-area deployment ever made by the Soviets, …
As many problems as Nikita Khrushchev had in early 1962, another was beginning to fester in the one foothold he …
“The mantra is: ‘Do or Die.’ We shall either free India or die in the attempt.”
—Mahandas Gandhi
In the …
As if the unequal East-West strategic nuclear forces balance was not enough of a problem, Nikita Khrushchev was also dealing …
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall had been aware as early as July 1941 that most troops, having grown …
The 20th century conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union known as the Cold War thankfully never went …
Alaska, with respect to American military operations, was caught in a complex crossfire of competing resources, muddled strategic goals, and …
When the war began, American society largely regarded the proper role of women was that of homemaker and mother. The …