Military History

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By Barrett Tillman, Osprey (2022) Reviewed by: Capt. Chuck Good, USN (Ret.) Much ink has been spilled over the years on how wars begin, and almost as much on the treaties and negotiations which formally signal their end and dictate their terms. At Dawn We Slept and The Guns of August remain classics on how things start. As to how the end is marked, thousands of pages have been compiled on the great peace treaties: Versailles, Vienna, Paris. But few authors and scholars choose to examine the implementation of these pieces of paper – how the killing actually stops “in the trenches” while conflicts still rage. The classic of this underrepresented genre is a litera…

From BBC News "... one of the most potent symbols of Cold War division of Germany and of Europe."

From Marine Corps Times Last survivor of first Iwo flag raising dies By Chris Williams - The Associated Press Posted : Monday Jun 25, 2007 18:43:18 EDT EDINA, Minn. — Charles W. Lindberg, the last survivor of the six Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86. Lindberg died Sunday at Fairview Southdale hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, said John Pose, director of the Morris Nilsen Funderal Home in Richfield, which is handling Lindberg’s funeral. Lindberg spent decades explaining that it was his patrol, not the one captured in the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal, that raised the first fl…

Swedish Missile and related ítems (radar, electronics,..) Museum, of interest: http://www.robotmuseum.se/Mappar/0E/Robothistorik/08_Surface-to-air/ARM_RB07.htm

Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed (Rapid City Journal)

Rescued from a farm in Downsview, Ontario, Canada, and restored from this: To this:

Reagan, Reykjavik, and strategic imagination (Foreign Policy)

From Air Force Times NORAD marks 50th anniversary By Michael Hoffman - Staff writer Posted : Tuesday May 13, 2008 8:24:44 EDT The thought that Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers could fly over the Arctic Circle loaded down with nukes was a pretty scary idea in 1958. So scary, in fact, that American and Canadian politicians came together to set up what’s now known as the North American Aerospace Defense Command. NORAD turned 50 on Monday, marking its anniversary with a Golden Jubilee Ball at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. The celebration also includes the opening of the new NORAD-U.S. Northern Command Command Center at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., …

A recopilation of personal pictures almost without comments, some of rare subjects. The ship motives are scarce, but a lot of other stuff: http://www.primeportal.net/the_dockyards.htm

A very interesting and concise entry on Wikipedia About USAFE, full of ideas for Cold War scenarios: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Forces_in_Europe

A very interesting site, not very updated, but with many very in-deep articles (In Brazilian Portuguese): http://sistemasdearmas.com.br/ As example, towed decoy systems: http://sistemasdearmas.com.br/ge/der1rebocados.html

Reviewed by Capt. C. Herbert Gilliland Jr., USN (Ret.) Waking from a drunken evening, newly minted dive-bomber pilot Robert Steele finds himself in Pearl Harbor aboard the battleship Oklahoma. From that ominous moment, almost as though he wanted to cover the entire Pacific war in this single book, retired Navy Captain Deutermann shows us life and death in various terrifying ways at sea, as well as ashore. The novel’s title comes from the nickname for an air squadron newbie, which Steele is when he reports to Enterprise’s air group. Taking part in the Battle of Midway, “Nugget” scores a direct hit on a Japanese carrier and earns the new nickname “Fish.” Caught up …

A not widely know site (I think I know it for years, but I don't remembered it), recopilation of missile types: http://missile.index.ne.jp/en/index.html

A blog by the famous naval author Chris Chant (I consult usually his "Sea Forces of the World" and "Small Craft Navies"): http://www.cmchant.com/sea-dart-naval-sam-system

Reviewed by Major Chris Ketcherside, USMC (Ret.) The Ten Thousand-Day War at Sea is a companion book to the Hampton Roads Naval Museum’s exhibit of the same name, though it does hold up well enough on its own as a short summation of all U.S. Naval operations during the conflict in Vietnam. The book is relatively short at 101 pages, and most of these are given over to photographs of Naval actions in Vietnam and the related exhibits at the museum. It is organized by topic, covering every facet of Naval operations during the war, including special forces, logistics, gunfire support, surface actions, aviation, and so on. Also covered in their own sections are exceptio…

By David F. Winkler, Ph.D. Staff Historian Ten years ago, delegations from the U.S. and Russian Federations met at the Naval Observatory to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Incidents at Sea Agreement (IncSea) on May 25, 1972, as part of the Nixon- Brezhnev Summit held in Moscow. After a historical overview provided by this author and reflections provided by the former Secretary of the Navy – John W. Warner – who negotiated the accord representing the United States, shot glasses were filled and gulps of vodka marked a festive occasion. Now with the fiftieth anniversary falling on the first anniversary of the passing of Warner, with a ground …

Gerhard Neumann F-104 Starfighter Museum: http://www.f-104.de/ And this related site of some model planes showed in the Museum: http://acroairwolf.beepworld.de/plastikmodellejets.htm

Reviewed by Mr. Tom Phillips, USN (Ret.) This 8.5×11.5-inch booklet of 64 pages is #26 of 30 in a series by Ship Craft. As such, it is less likely to appeal to historians than advanced scale modelers with a bent for customizing standard scale models into works of fascinating art. The author, Roger Branfill-Cook, has previously written several books on naval vessels and armaments, including Torpedo: The Complete History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon, X.1 The Royal Navy’s Mystery Submarine, and River Gunboats: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Other entries in the Ship Craft series focus mostly on single ship classes—e.g., Kongo Class, Yorktown Class, Bismar…