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I still vividly remember the skepticism, surprise, and disbelief with which Sovietologists watched Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s. Skepticism that he was...
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I still vividly remember the skepticism, surprise, and disbelief with which Sovietologists watched Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s. Skepticism that he was...
The Cold War is filled with crazy stories of Russia trying to mimic or copy NATO and the U.S. in building lethal weapons of...
Kiev-class: Russia’s Aircraft Carrier-Cruiser Hybrid – The Soviet Union’s experimentation with fixed-wing aircraft carriers was anything but standard. As the second carrier-class built by...
Let’s face it: Russia built some weapons of war that were not based on the most rational of thinking. We might just say that...
Western war planners and politicians have paid special attention to Russia’s military since the end of World War II. Soviet and now Russian capabilities...
Russia’s Failed Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier: Meet the Ulyanovsk As the Cold War entered its twilight years, the Soviet Union became increasingly interested in building...
The Air Force was truly worried about the lethality of Russian nuclear bombers. The solution: arm US fighter jets with nuclear missiles that could...
Is a coup possible in Russia? Several months ago, most analysts would have dismissed the idea as absurd. Today, with the war in Ukraine...
The SR-71 Blackbird is one of the United States’ most distinctive spy aircraft of the Cold War. Since the aircraft was developed in total...
Sure, the Saab 29 Tunnan is not exactly popular, famous, or even well known like the F-22 of F-35. And yet, it does have...