Articles related to "Warsaw Pact"

NATO, a remnant of the Cold War, is today faced with adjusting from training to fight the Soviet Union, to handling the complex conflicts of the 21st century.

Since 2000, when the US borrowed Warsaw pact combat doctrine for squad level marksmen, the line between these men and snipers has blurred.

Reformer Alexander Dubcek & the Czech Communist Party declared "democratic socialism" in August 1968; but Warsaw Pact nations & Moscow hard liners were not listening.

East Germany was created as a result of the circumstances surrounding the defeat of Nazi Germany and the onset of the Cold War.

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crisis of the Cold War, setting up the stage for the decades of tension that were to follow.

In reaction to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the CIA became more and more interested in using Afghanistan as a means to weaken the USSR.

One of the most famous trains in the world, the Orient Express has become renowned as one of the world's great passenger trains.

The end of one war often determines the circumstances of another war's beginning. The CIA mission in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992 sheds light on more recent events.

Long a practice of Warsaw Pact Soviet Battle doctrine, the US Army undertook development of a Squad Designated Marksmen program in the early 21st Century.

A discussion of President Reagan's contribution to the collapse of the USSR and further factors leading up to the end of Cold War hostilities.

How can Russian apprehension of NATO enlargement help explain this war between Russia and Georgia in the small breakaway province of South Ossetia?

Russian expansion into South Ossetia is the latest example of Soviet style aggression. 4 decades after the Prague Spring, Georgians feel today what Czechs felt in 1968.

Larry A Thorne had served three different flags in his twenty years in the combat arms trade. A hero in his native Finnland he is also remembered in the United States.

A product of WWII, SKS rifle, withdrawn from Soviet front line use in the 1950s is still seen all over the world in military and police use.

Despite Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949, early Cold War crises were frequently diffused when the U.S. threatened to use the bomb in several Asian conflicts.

During the late, great Cold War the US flew a number of "acquired" MiG fighters in a secret program over the deserts of Nevada.

The SKS-45 rifle was seen in one form or another on virtually every Cold War battlefield in the latter part of the 20th Century.