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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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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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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…
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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.
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Sirajuddin Haqqani: A Man Out of History
How does the son of the man who pushed Osama Bin Laden into perpetrating the 9/11 attacks, who’s killed hundreds of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans in his own war efforts, and has a $10,000,000 bounty on his head get paid $6 million by the United States’ government to run security for it?
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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…
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Steeling the Nightingale pt. 2: Budgetary Boogaloo
When executed properly, armored/mechanized combined arms maneuvers/assaults are tantamount to a perfectly orchestra of slaughter and mayhem, even when fighting a stiff and determined adversary. When individual components fail to advance, can’t break through hostile strongpoints, or simply lag behind as a result of command failure or logistical shortfalls, offensive maneuvers can rapidly descend into…
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Steeling the Nightingale: A Shopping List For The Ukrainian Army
Wither the Great Satan
Analytica Camillus 