Pork Chop Hill’s unvarnished critique of an often confused and clumsy US war machine is notable, and one element of the film that feels like a rough but coherent draft for a later era of films, particularly those made and set in the Vietnam era, even if ultimately steers clear of the ...
Cold War Israeli Armor M-51 State of Israel (1961-2006) Medium Tank – 180 Converted The M-51 was a medium tank developed on the M4 Sherman chassis for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to support the M-50s with a more powerful gun. It was used in the Arab-Israeli conflicts of the...
France (1949-1953) Amphibious Light Tank – 1 Prototype Built Immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War, France found itself embroiled in a large-scale guerilla war in its colony of Indochina as it attempted to reassert control over the area. Seeking to overthrow their colonial ...
“In this rich and innovative new book, David Biggs considers the spatial dimension of the war in Vietnam, through an examination of the densely layered militarized landscapes around Hu . The result is a gem, a fluid, authoritative, compelling work that shows just how deep, complex, and long...
Conclusion In narratives on the outbreak of the Cold War the traditionalist interpretation prevails. The Soviet Union is presented as a power with expansionist aims, aims the Western countries decided to work against, which led to the Cold War. The image of the USSR within these textbooks contr...
The Cold War was a geopolitical chess match between the United States and the Soviet Union in order to project their respective ideologies across the globe.
The tensest times were during the Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), the Korean War (1950–1953), the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban missile crisis (1962), the Vietnam War (1955–1975), the Yom Kippur War (1973), the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), ...
Coming so soon after World War II and ending without clear victory, Korea became for many Americans a “forgotten war.” Decades later, though, the nation’s other major intervention in Asia would be anything but forgotten. The Vietnam War had deep roots in the Cold War world. Vietnam had...
It analyses the fundamental drivers of Anglo-American policy-making during this crucial period – assumptions, expectations and apprehensions that would, eventually, lead America into the disaster of Vietnam. The book suggests the key to understanding British and American approaches to Southeast Asia ...
5. Conclusion The new Cold War is a more complex and broader phenomenon than the clash between Russia and the West over Ukraine, or even the more general problems of European security, arms control, and other issues on which observers usually focus. Structurally, Cold War II is a manifestatio...