Cold War
Miracle On Ice
1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Underdog US Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet powerhouse today, 41 years ago. AW1 Rod sends. U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the “Miracle on Ice” In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time […]
Taiwan Is Also On Mainland China’s List
Taiwan is not lagging behind Palau in bumping up its military aircraft. The Island of Taiwan has been targeted by the Chinese government in Beijing as a possession of China, and is not recognized by China as an independent nation in itself and China wants what it wants, period. The Taiwanese, of course, do […]
Navy Declassifies 300 Pages of Probe into 1963 USS Thresher Disaster
USS Thresher (SSN 593) USS Thresher (SSN-593) was commissioned on August 3, 1961, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. Following commissioning, she completed trials in the Atlantic and Caribbean areas. On April 10, 1963, following overhaul, Thresher began deep-diving tests, along with USS Skylark (ASR-20), about 220 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. As the […]
US / Russian forces clash in Syria
Skippy sends us this news about a clash in Syria between US and Russian forces. That headline is a tad misleading. A “clash” usually means someone shot at someone else, or picked a fight in person and the other guy beat his ass. This comes off more like schoolyard bullying, where the class dork goes […]
Russians release video of Tsar Bomba denotation
Tsar Bomba is the informal name given to the largest thermonuclear bomb ever detonated. Bursting with a yield estimated around 50 megatons (i.e. 50 million tons of TNT), it far surpasses the largest American explosion (Castle Bravo at 15MT). The Russian nuclear agency Rosatom has released a regarding the bomb, including never before seen footage […]
Oh, the Irony Of It All….
Back in 1983, before there was even the slightest hint that the Soviet Union was bankrupting itself by trying to annex Afghanistan, we in the Free World lived under the vague threat of instant annihilation by megaton Soviet missiles being launched toward us. The irony is that by 1989, the USSR under Gorbachev had become […]
If war was so terrible, why do we sometimes miss it?
This comes from We Are The Mighty’s history section. https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/red-army-veterans The subject is why freedom is always worth fighting for. The author went to visit in-laws in Ukraine in the post-Soviet era, some of whom had been in the “Red” Army, and at the time, were our enemy. Imagine, if you can, what it may […]
Tinananmen Square
31 years ago in June, Chinese students began a public protest to get the Communist Chinese government to lighten up. Hua Guofeng had just died and was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping, but no loosening of party rulership was forthcoming. There had been protest prior to this in 1976, which were not publicly spoken about, but […]
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