The Fifty-year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold WarNaval Institute Press, 2000 - 597 oldal While other authors have portrayed the period as an uneasy "peace" enforced by mutually assured destruction via atomic and nuclear weapons, Norman Friedman dashes the prevailing notion that the Cold War was but a loose succession of related events and shows instead that it was World War III, conducted at a much slower pace than a hot war and allowing for the enduring technological, cultural, and social effects of the past five decades. Friedman is the first to amalgamate geopolitics with the technical and military developments of the last fifty years. Avoiding the trap of blaming it all on ideology, he connects each side's politico-military strategy and central defining character. Among the many questions he discusses are: Was it communism versus capitalism or just old-fashioned Russian imperialism cloaked in a largely irrelevant ideology? |
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... million - man Red Army had been cut , by 1947 , to about 2.6 million . This was about five times the size of its U.S. counterpart , which had fallen from a similar wartime peak . Security troops added something over a million more to ...
... million - man Red Army had been cut , by 1947 , to about 2.6 million . This was about five times the size of its U.S. counterpart , which had fallen from a similar wartime peak . Security troops added something over a million more to ...
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... million ( plus 4 million in Com- munist - controlled areas of South Vietnam ) ( Record , The Wrong War , 36 ) . This cost , some- thing more than 5 percent of the Communist Vietnamese population , compares with about 27 million out of ...
... million ( plus 4 million in Com- munist - controlled areas of South Vietnam ) ( Record , The Wrong War , 36 ) . This cost , some- thing more than 5 percent of the Communist Vietnamese population , compares with about 27 million out of ...
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... million cadres ( Party workers ) were imprisoned ( out of a total of 6 to 8 million ) , as well as 400,000 military personnel . The repression that ended the revolution was savage , including artillery and napalm attacks on Wuzhou . An ...
... million cadres ( Party workers ) were imprisoned ( out of a total of 6 to 8 million ) , as well as 400,000 military personnel . The repression that ended the revolution was savage , including artillery and napalm attacks on Wuzhou . An ...
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War and Communism | 3 |
Stalins Soviet Union | 16 |
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