Cold War | War History

Watch Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Sail Through Huge Waves During Massive Storm

Ever since the Aircraft Carrier replaced the battleship as the queen of the sea, it has defined what modern sea power is all about. However,…

The Army Goes In – The 1956 Suez Crisis

The Suez Crisis comprised of an invasion by Israel of Egypt in late 1956, Britain and France soon followed in this invasion. The aim of…

New Netflix Film Does A Good Job Of Honoring Irish UN Peacekeepers Besieged in Congo

Tadhg Quinn was effusive in his praise for the recently released film that tells the unknown story of A company, a UN force composed of…

The Man Who Stopped the Cold War in its Tracks!

The Cold War, that period of tension between the Western and Eastern world powers that lasted from the end of WWII until 1991, kept the…

When the Chinese Stole a Soviet Tank, Things Nearly Went Nuclear

In 1900, Russia signed the Treaty of Beijing which gave them Outer Manchuria and other Chinese lands. When both countries became communist, their nagging border…

How A Small Group Of Canadian Paratroopers Saved Denmark From Soviet Occupation at the End of WW2

By May 1945 the war in Europe had finally started to wind down. Yet for the men of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, there was…

The Food Fight That Almost Started World War 3 – The Berlin Airlift

Daniel Russ

Originally published at civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com on May 31, 2009. / By Daniel Russ June 25, 1948, the Soviet Union, flush with the success of driving the…

The Truth Behind the Movie: The Hunt for Red October

Nikola Budanovic

The “Hunt for the Red October” was first written by a famous spy-genre novelist, Tom Clancy in 1984. In 1990, the book was turned into…

After 39 Soviet Commandos Took Hill 3234 In Afghanistan, Not Even Hundreds Of Mujahedeen Could Dislodge Them

Nikola Budanovic

The Soviet-Afghan War, or the “Soviet Vietnam” as some political analysts called it, was one of the key points in which the decaying superpower came…

The Tsar Bomba, The Biggest Bomb The World Has Ever Seen

Lincoln Riddle

Every aspect of the phrase, ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ applies to the Tsar Bomba. The weapon was the Soviet Union’s rebuttal to the United States…

Haunting Pics Of A Rare Tu-128 – The Largest & Heaviest Fighter Ever In Service

Damian Lucjan

The Tupolev Tu-28, a Soviet long-range interceptor from the 1960s, had the NATO reporting name Fiddler. At the time, it was the largest and heaviest…

Conflict Was Rife After The Fall Of The USSR

The Soviet Union officially ceased to exist on December 26, 1991, 74 years after its inception in 1917. The fall of the Union left the…