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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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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?