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Storm in the Caucasus, edited by Ruslan Pukhov; translated by James Griffin
Inexplicably in retrospect, both the war itself and its defeat came as a surprise to Armenian experts, politicians and the general public. And this is despite the fact that Azerbaijan had been preparing for this war for at least a decade and a half, not hiding it at all, but, on the contrary, constantly threatening…
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Psychosis and Civilization
Authored by Herbert Goldhamer and Andrew W. Marshall The last names Goldhamer and Marshall will doubtlessly sound familiar to any student of 1960s-to-modern American military history and our crop of well-connected erstwhile Cold Warriors, but before Goldhamer and Marshall were penning the seminal work on waging total warfare in the nuclear age, they collaborated on…
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Iran, Israel, and Einstein’s Monsters
In light of the clearly deteriorating international political environment, it’d probably be helpful to show what a nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran could look like, given the extent public knowledge of both sides’ active and potential nuclear arsenals. As of November 16th, 2024, per International Atomic Energy Agency statistics and estimates derived from said…
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Nuclear Strategy 411: Balsa Shields, Titanium Swords — Defending Against Nuclear Armageddon
Taking this data and anecdata together, we arrive at the fascinating conclusion that despite maintaining a rotely and obviously dysfunctional bureaucracy that had to resort to trickery in order to implement a procurement program everyone knew to be comically inviable, the US government enacted a policy that wound up being one of the death-knells of…
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Comparison of Chinese and Vietnamese Special Forces by Martin Andrew, PhD
In late 1970 at Can Tho Army Airfield a sapper placed a satchel charge in the base ammunition dump behind the intelligence bunker. He had however forgot to waterproof his satchel charge, before swimming a rice paddy to infiltrate the base, and next morning the base awoke to find a smouldering satchel in the midst…
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Nuclear Strategy 411: Introduction
Boiled down to its sublime essence, nuclear strategy can best be defined as — the refined art of how to kill nations while ensuring that one’s own country is not destroyed.
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