The long-running “Jack Ryan” novel series by Tom Clancy has given readers stories of political intrigue, high-tech warfare and recurring characters for decades, many of them telling the story of Jack Ryan’s ascendancy through the Central Intelligence Agency to the White House. With international incidents that serve as the main focus of each story, such […]
Read more "Tom Clancy’s Third World War"Writing with an eye for detail and an ability to blend real-world politics, nations and equipment with plausible stories, Tom Clancy’s works earned a reputation that still draws readers today. Though Clancy’s name may be more recognizable due to the “Tom Clancy’s” brand of video games by Ubisoft, the Jack Ryan series of novels is […]
Read more "Tom Clancy’s Pacific War: Japan and Korea"Whether it’s a zombie apocalypse, alien invasion or nuclear war, there’s no shortage of fiction portraying survivors trying to eke out a living in the absence of organized society or some form of authority. Many times, fiction such as The Walking Dead portrays a total lack of government or surviving officials to rebuild society, but in […]
Read more "The REX 84 Contingency Plan"Like most conflicts, the Vietnam War is chock full of myths and legends. Some legends are generated by the secretive nature of the war, such as the rumors of Soviet special forces, while others are generated through documented instances, such as the stories of American defectors fighting alongside the Communists. But one myth doesn’t sound […]
Read more "Enemy Helicopters: Strange Lights in Vietnam"In terms of modern warfare, “stealth” is a word that instantly grabs both the layperson and historian with images of aircraft that can seemingly attack anywhere in the world and disappear without a trace; an example of both American technological superiority and the changing face of combat. Aircraft like the the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 […]
Read more "Hidden Killer: The Comanche Stealth Helicopter"Today, the Cold War is remembered for bringing the world to the brink of global war, often personified by an apocalyptic nuclear exchange or a massive conventional war over West Germany. Though NATO and Soviet forces maintained a readiness to fight on land, sea and air throughout the Cold War, it is largely unknown that […]
Read more "MiG-105, the Soviet Space Fighter"In the second in a series of articles on future warfare, this article will look at the possibility of wars being fought over the last oil reserves. While it may seem strange at first to fight over oil, it is important to remember petroleum provides 39 percent of the world’s energy consumption. During the Gulf […]
Read more "Future Wars: Oil"Everyone from science fiction writers to military officials have planned on what future conflicts would be, looking at factors ranging from population shifts to dwindling resources. In the first in a series of articles, this will look at the potential for conflict revolving around Rare Earth Elements. To begin, Rare Earth Elements, or REE’s, are […]
Read more "Future Wars: Rare Earth Elements"While the Vietnam War raged from the 60’s to the 70’s, changing American politics and culture, another war was going on next door in Laos. While the U.S. military and its allies fought a major war in Vietnam, the CIA was covertly fighting the Laotian Civil War. Out of this conflict, a legend would arise […]
Read more "Anthony Poshepny, the CIA’s Rogue Agent"There’s plenty of myths regarding the strange research carried out in the former Soviet Union. Space weaponry, psychotronics, the Ayaks aircraft, all are examples of rumors of strange super technology that was being hidden in ultra-secrecy behind the Iron Curtain. Of course, the lack of solid information only helps to drive people’s imaginations wild, but […]
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