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The Tokyo Fire Raids, 1945 The Japanese View

historychannelfromthewar wrote 3 weeks ago: The B-29 Superfortress bomber made its first appearance over Tokyo on November 1, 1944 – a sin … more →

Tags: war2, World War II, united states, Japan, tokyo, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Robert Guillain, bombing of Tokyo

Definition of a Leader

bringbackbernie wrote 3 weeks ago: “I’ll tell you what war is all about.  You’ve got to kill people, and when you kil … more →

Tags: leadership

The Heart of Darkness2 comments

Steven A. Armstrong wrote 1 month ago: JOSEPH CONRAD, Sydney Harbour (Photo credit: Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons) Not … more →

Tags: Travel, united states, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, War Remnants Museum, Joseph Conrad, vietnam war, Saigon, Chi Minh City

The Vince Foster Society

Jax Scriblerians wrote 1 month ago: 7 April, 2013 The Netflix series House of Cards  makes clear the purpose of people like me.  Vince F … more →

Tags: The Vince Foster Society, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mark Woods, Rush Limbaugh, Alpine

LeMay

Sarah wrote 1 month ago:   by Barrett Tillman Published 2007 In this biography from the Great Generals Series, we learn … more →

Tags: Book Review, Biography, Lemay, Barrett Tillman

Curtis LeMay: the photo

ableventure wrote 2 months ago: “If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I’m going to knock … more →

Tags: China, Cold War, PLA hacking, Balance

North Korea or the United States: Who is a Threat to Global Security?

ajfloyd wrote 2 months ago: Satellite picture displaying the Korean peninsula at night. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) SOURCE Most pe … more →

Tags: Government, media, military, Foreign Policy, united states, North Korea, South Korea, United Nations Security Council, Korea

Give your stress wings....

jeb610 wrote 3 months ago: and let it fly away ~ T. Guillemets … more →

Tags: General, photos, 1940s, Chuck Yeager, Glamorous Glenna, Life, Nostalgia, Simple living, simplicity

The Uniqueness of the Pacific Air War?11 comments

Ross wrote 4 months ago: Professor Robert Citino has posted that there was a degree of uniqueness about the war in the Pacifi … more →

Tags: Coalition Warfare, Second World War - Pacific, Military History, royal air force, Air Power History, united states army air force, Second World War, Pacific War, Twentieth Air Force

The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay... ("In truth, the real LeMay couldn’t have been further from the crazy brute that he’s been made out to be. He was ...")2 comments

Gunny G wrote 4 months ago: “…I was surprised to find out that LeMay wasn’t at all the man I thought he was … and I … more →

Tags: BarackObama, Cold War, Curtis, Dr. Strangelove, Hollywood, Republican, Robert McNamara, Soviet Union, strategic air command

Cold War Willies2 comments

12 Step Analyst wrote 5 months ago:      During the year of 1962, war was looming on the horizon. That’s … more →

Tags: Chap G: Air Force Years, Cuban Missile Crisis

Nanda Devi - River Deep Mountain High3 comments

alpinedrome wrote 5 months ago: Forty-five years ago, a joint Indo-US espionage mission lost five kilograms of plutonium high up in … more →

Tags: Himalaya, nanda devi, garhwal, CIA, Indo-US espionage mission, Plutonium, R.N Kao, Rishi Ganga, Karthik Rana

The Secret of Nanda Devi1 comment

alpinedrome wrote 5 months ago: 40 years ago a team of top American climbers participated in a botched CIA operation that lost a Plu … more →

Tags: Himalaya, nanda devi, Pete Takeda, SNAP device, C.I.A. Operation, Xinjiang Province, Indo-American spy team

Modernity, the Cold War, and New Whig Histories of Ideas, Pt. 3

Will Thomas wrote 6 months ago: In previous posts, I have noted characteristics historians attribute to Cold War-era social science, … more →

Tags: EWP Book Club, History of the Human Sciences, Robert McNamara, David Engerman, Talcott Parsons, Mark Solovey, Howard Brick, Peter Novick, Walt Rostow

Good morning, Vietnam!!33 comments

Betty Londergan wrote 6 months ago: It’s impossible for someone of my (advanced) age to visit Vietnam without being overwhelmed with mem … more →

Tags: Vietnam, Heifer International, Travel, Photography, Hunger, Inspiration, vietnam war, Non La hats, Ho Chi Minh City

A Lesson from the Cuba Crisis -- If you keep a big, scary dog around, it will eventually bite you

pajacobsen wrote 7 months ago: Follow @EngineeredReal Map showing reach of Soviet medium- and intermediate range ballistic missiles … more →

Tags: World War II, War, Politics, John F. Kennedy, Cuba missile crisis, SAC, Nuclear war, Missiles, McNamara

KENNEDY AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

J.R. LeMar wrote 7 months ago: US President John F. Kennedy meeting with Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev I just finished watchin … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Bay of Pigs, Bruce Greenwood, Commander in Chief: Inside the Oval Office, JFK, Kevin Costner, Maxwell D. Taylor, Nikita Khrushchev, Nuclear war

Soldado3 comments

Marcos Paulo wrote 8 months ago: “Apreciar a guerra é um mérito no soldado, uma qualidade perigosa no comandante, e definitivam … more →

Tags: Filosofia, salvador dali, soldado, George Santayana, napoleão bonaparte, Otto vonBismarck, Douglas McArthur, Thomas Jefferson, C. J. Cherryh

THE GENERAL GAMBOLS

simanaitissays wrote 9 months ago: THIS PHOTO of U.S.A.F. Gen. Curtis LeMay originally appeared in the January 1960 issue of Road & … more →

Tags: and furthermore..., SAC, Fifties sports car racing


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