Nuclear Strategy 411: Balsa Shields, Titanium Swords — Defending Against Nuclear Armageddon

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

    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…


  • Nuclear Strategy 411: Introduction

    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. 


  • Must We Shoot From The Hip? by Dr. Bernard Brodie

    Must We Shoot From The Hip? by Dr. Bernard Brodie

    The surrender of Italy and Japan in the same war, and of Germany and especially of Russia in the previous war, show that the will to resist may collapse long before the physical capacity to do so — provided that that will is properly conditioned by the conqueror and that the seeds of disaffection already…


  • Chinese Anti-Access/Area-Denial and the South China Sea by Martin Andrew, PhD

    Chinese Anti-Access/Area-Denial and the South China Sea by Martin Andrew, PhD

    China is a victim of its own geo-strategic circumstances requiring the sea to export its products and receive its raw materials. Much of the raw materials for its economy come through the South China Sea.  The Chinese military are looking at ways to control the South China Sea and negate foreign forces, especially the United…


  • First (Rough) English Language Translation of Almost Every People’s Liberation Army Base

    First (Rough) English Language Translation of Almost Every People’s Liberation Army Base

    This is the first extant English language map of pretty much every Chinese People’s Liberation Army facility that’s publicly available.