Even as Reagan fought communism in Central America, however, the Soviet Union was disintegrating. In response to severe economic problems and growing political ferment in the USSR, Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022) took office in 1985 and introduced two policies that redefined Russia’s relations...
Deterring Beijing will therefore requirecombatant commandersto innovate and do more with the platforms and systems they can field today rather than waiting for a theoretical future force. The DoD largely missed its window to gain durable advantages against China or Russia during the last 20 years of...
The order is valued at $1.5 billion, and the ships were originally scheduled for delivery between 2005 and 2009. The Norwegian frigates are a derivative of the F-100 class but have a different command system (a development of the Kongsberg MSI-3000) and the French Spherion bow sonar. The...
In the late summer the Communists’ hastily reorganized armed forces, the Red Army, recovered most of eastern European Russia. At Omsk, which became the centre of the anti-Communists, a new army was hastily trained under the command of Adm.Aleksandr V. Kolchak, with the assistance of British...
American advisers judged that fewer than half of the ROKA’sinfantrybattalions were even marginally ready for war. U.S. military assistance consisted largely of surplus light weapons and supplies. Indeed, GeneralDouglas MacArthur, commander of the United States’ Far East Command (FECOM), argued ...
the course of the campaign inSwitzerlandhad reflected growing differences betweenAustriaandRussia. Despite Russia’ssubsequentabandonment of the common cause and France’s recovery of control over Holland and Switzerland, the British government paid no serious attention to Bonaparte’s proposals for peace...
One of these exiles was a minor but successful guerrilla leader named Kim Il-sung, who had received some training in Russia and had been made a major in the Soviet army. The other Korean nationalist movement, no less revolutionary, drew its inspiration from the best of science, education, ...
Thereupon, Great Britain, which had no concern with Serbia and no express obligation to fight either for Russia or for France but was expressly committed to defend Belgium, on August 4 declared war against Germany. Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia on August 5; Serbia against Germany ...
delay shortened the time for carrying out the invasion of the U.S.S.R. and was to prove the more serious because in 1941 the Russian winter would arrive earlier than usual. Nevertheless, Hitler and the heads of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH, or German Army High Command)—namely, the...
In Holland a capitulation had been signed for the withdrawal of the Anglo-Russian expeditionary force. Although the Russo-Austrian forces in Italy had won a series of victories, the course of the campaign in Switzerland had reflected growing differences between Austria and Russia. Despite Russia’s...