Category: Digitized Articles/Books
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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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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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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…
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The Costs of Armament Production and the Profitability Of Armament Exports in COMECON Countries by Dr. Michael Checinski
Dr. Checinski’s grossly under-recognized analytical tour de main provided inarguably the most in depth examination of the Soviet and Polish defense industrial bases and their perverse economic proclivities to come out of the “West” during the Cold War. A trained and brilliant economist, paints an almost Dostoevskyian portrait of a military industrial complex most aptly…