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...y doctrine in light of the lessons they say they learned from the Gulf War. Since the early 1980s, such prominent military thinkers as Marshal of the Soviet Union N. V. Ogarkov argued that emerging technologies were generating a new revolution in military affairs. The Russian military doctrinal response to Desert Storm seems to confirm Marshal Ogarkov’s predictions. This t...

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...Y DOCTRINE . . . . 7 Relationship between Military Doctrine and Strategy . . . . 8 Military Doctrine—Military Art—Operational Art—Tactics . . . .9 Soviet/Russian Military Doctrine Evolution . . . . 9 Soviet Military Doctrine Stereotype . . . . . 16 Notes . . . . . . 19 3 RUSSIAN IMPRESSION OF THE GULF WAR . . . . . . 23 Strategy . . . . . 24 The Threat . . . . . . ...

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...erstwhile private army – definitely included an inordinate amount of gays.” “The Soviet doctors who performed an autopsy on what they claimed to ... ...ast broken by Hulk: “Mossad agents.” “Are you allowed to operate in the United States?” – was my unwise contribution to the developing dialog. ... ...rawing to a close it was clear that the West is fast acquiring a new adversary: the Soviet Union. They were all over Europe, closing fast on Germany... ...d: “Western intelligence services had no one inside the USSR and the fast forming Soviet Bloc in Eastern Europe. This emerging enemy, on the other ... ...se channels to smuggle hundreds of scientists and intelligence operatives into the States without entry visas. We were in a state of panic and grew ... ...g vanquished Nazi Germany, we were losing the war in Europe. We could not allow the Soviets to lay their hands on advanced German weapons technologi...

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...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ...dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the United states. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unifica... ...mented and amended in the 1930s. It envisioned the invasion of Canada by the United States to hurt the interests of the United Kingdom. Later, the P... ...R - until 1971. Ukraine was nominally independent even during the heyday of the Soviet Union. It maintained its own delegation to the United Nat... ...rthday. The year after, he relocated permanently to Russia. In 1938, certain senior Soviet figures - like Nikolai Bukharin and Genrikh Yagoda - wer... ...o (1898-1976) was an agronomist. During the reign of Lenin and Stalin years in the Soviet Union, he became the chief proponent of the work of the ... ...ck and the desire to further stretch it. A species with long necks was born. The Soviet leadership sought an indigenous theory to counter the "ca... ...Geneticists who opposed Lysenkoism were dispatched to the gulag as "enemies of the Soviet people". Most confessed to their "errors" in propounding ...

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...2 www.StrategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is dedicated to... ...hat I am thinking of has his roots on the East Coast of the former United States. He spent time away, and I am curious if he truly has come home,” Z... ...ve the distinguished function of transporting the President of the United States to various areas of the world. It was heavily armored and had more ... ...eekers in military Hummers. Hum- mers were one of the few breeds of United States Military hard- ware that Zodiac continued to use. Most of the aircra... ...hands furiously punched in C programming code. “Good. For once, the United States Government’s secrets will actually be useful,” Vincent stated. “Dam... ... that you know nothing of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.” “Of…of course I know about it. Two nuclear powers building ... ... hatred could have been harnessed and used for our purposes.” “The former Soviet Republics have virtually decimated them- selves through war with eac...

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...lin, he yearns for world dominance. He was recruited by the CIA, after the breakup of the Soviet Union.” “Why did we want him?” “We didn’t. But the... ... “The Russians and Chinese are preparing for an all out nuclear attack against the United States. Both countries have agreed that it would constitute... ...alties, especially on China’s side. A nuclear war would be more devastating on the United States than on there own countries. We must do something to... ...r have his own agenda? And the most important question – was the President of the United States aware of what was going on? And if not, why not? Pre... ...thfuls of Canadian bacon. “Russia and China were planning a nuclear attack on the United States, and Zlatamir conceived a plausible solution, a spe... ...fy that this alternative is the only way.” “Who’s that?” “The President of the United States.” “I can talk to him, if you’d like?” “Only if y...

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...iament of the whole humankind. The world is a one whole federation of free states and nations. A one whole democratic system with high living standard... ... “rider on a white horse” after the “Great Battle” of World War II was the soviet communist general Zhukov. On a Red-Square parade of Victory. And the...

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...e and Belgrade daily «Politika» writes from Europe, Mediterranean, Near and Far East, Africa, former 3 Soviet Union, Asia, and United States. ... ...» writes from Europe, Mediterranean, Near and Far East, Africa, former 3 Soviet Union, Asia, and United States. Stays outside his country for n...

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...nd more powerful country, or the hatred toward Israeli aid from the United States? I don't understand it. We talk and talk and yet people are fallin... ...nancially backed Iraq against Iran in that war and the Taliban against the Soviet Union and now those regimes were the wrong choices. The enemy of my ... ... so voraciously. "The wrappers are labeled with the names of American states on them." "Yes, I like caramel. I always have since Chusanee an... ...ter your mother and father separated briefly, your mother went away to the states. You were born in America." Jatupon sat there in numb surprise with ... ... aphorism, Mosquito; and Nawin here is a full blooded American born in the states." "I don't see a Best Western. How far out on this road do you...

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...A new ASAT policy seems appropriate as the US faces an entirely new, but uncertain, threat with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the rise of a multipolar world. Analyzing the ASAT debate from the past and the dynamics of the emerging space environment and threat can help in formulating that new ASAT policy—a continued ASAT research and...

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...dering ASAT’s Need . . . . . 14 Summarizing the Early Days . . . . 14 Notes . . . . . 15 4 THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE ASAT CONTROVERSY . . . . 17 Soviets Initiate an ASAT Program . . . . . . 17 Revitalizing the US ASAT—The Carter “Two-Track” Policy . . . . . 18 Soviet Initiatives—And the Reagan Response . . . 20 Soviet Satellites—How Threatening Are They . . . 21 ...

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...n effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven millio...

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...iron Dolot (nom-de-plume), a Famine survivor who immigrated to the United States after World War II, began this book in 1953, and completed it in 19... ...describes the destruction of his village between the years 1929–1933, and states that he wrote only about what he saw and experienced personally. His... ...f People‘s Commissars and Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Resolution prohibiting trade, removal of merchandise, forbidd...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ... War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is mad... ... Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the United States. Only 23% of Spaniards had a positive opinion of the US... ...l, and fatuously ignorant - this nation of video clips and sound bites, the United States, is often perceived as trying to impose its narcissistic... ...hird and fourth are mainly economic, cultural and military. In an echo of defunct Soviet and Euro-left conspiracy theories, the paper insists that... ... power, vying for real estate first with Spain in Latin America and later with the Soviet Union all over the world. The Marshall Plan was a ploy to... ...bestowed on his anti-Russian outfit - before he was dumped unceremoniously once the Soviets retreated from Afghanistan. Normally the outcomes of ex... ... into the Khalq faction, favored by China, and the Parcham faction, favored by the Soviet Union. In 1978 it was the Khalq faction that took over, b... ...erthrown and killed by the hardliner Khalq communist Hafizullah Amin. In 1979, the Soviet Spetsnaz murdered Amin and replaced him with the Parcham ...

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...When the Cold War set off a prolonged arms race and space competition with the Soviet Union, this well-educated cadre of the greatest generation was ready to provide the technical and managerial expertise needed to meet the Soviet challenge. Combining patriotism with a desire to be on the cutting edge o...

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...The decline of the Soviet Union upset the world’s balance of power and opened the door to third world proliferation since the superpowers no longer have tight control over their client-states. This increase in proliferation raised the issue of ...

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...vil War . . . . . . . 315 Steffen W. Schmidt Nicaragua’s Prolonged Contra War . . . . . . 349 Charles L. Stansifer The Prolongation of the United States in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Earl H. Tilford, Jr. The Soviet War in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . .393 Stephen Blank Northern Ireland: A Prolonged Conflict . . . .421 Benjamin Kline...

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...THE FEMALE FIGHTERS OF WORLD WAR II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 3 THE SOVIET FEMALE FLIERS OF WORLD WAR II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4 SHAHIDA IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD . . . . . .39 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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...m War. During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force gave little effort to its collateral maritime missions until concern grew over containing an expanding Soviet naval threat. Today, Air Force capabilities for aerial minelaying and other naval missions remain an important (though little appreciated) means for projecting long-range air power in support of "Global Reach--Global P...

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...The third world continues to grow in its importance to the United States . Often possessing a wealth of vital natural resources or a geographic position astride crucial lines of communications, third world nations have, in many cases, become the focal point of East-West confrontations . Ad...

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.... . . . . 3 Options in Selecting Land-Based AirPower. . . .5 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 THE THIRD WORLD ANDTHEUNITED STATES: PROBLEMS, ASSUMPTIONS, AND OUTLOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Problems and Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Blind Alleys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1...

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... A third group (and Delcev was, for a time, among them) wanted a federation of all states Balkan with an equal standing for a Macedonian polity (au... ...hema. The Serbs and Hungarians aspired to ethnically and culturally homogenous states and were willing to apply violence towards the achievemen... ...n the throes of its own transformation. With Tito's demise and the implosion of the Soviet Bloc, the Communists lacked both compass and leader. His ... ...in battle, took over from the LDK as the US favourite. At the behest of the United States, KLA representatives not only were present, but headed th... ...cepted the terms of the agreement with a sombre Rugova in tow. These public acts of statesmanship: negotiating, bargaining and, finally, accepting g... ... vengeful master. Michael: I also aim to draw a parallel between the now defunct Soviet Union and the Arab states, as an illustration of the orig... ...y with these movements, because of the ease with which they were manipulated by the Soviet secret services. It was an open secret in the USSR that t... ...ormers were at all levels of society. As a result of a contemptuous expenditure of Soviet soldiers' lives during WWII, women made up the majority ... ...ife expectancy. As a result of this tragic and brutal history, people living in the Soviet society developed a range of maladaptive and enduring pat...