The Imperial War Museum book of Modern Warfare: British and Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000 Edited by Major General Julian Thompson London: Pan Books, 2003, £8.99 This is the paperback edition of the book published by Sidgwick and Jackson a year ago. It contains 15 essays on conflicts that have involved British armed forces … Read more
[…] copy be destroyed. The report was obtained after a 2 year FOIA effort by the National Security Archive. The report is at: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/latin_america/cuba/ig_report/index.html On-line version: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/latin_america/cuba/ig_report/images/Cuban_Operation.htm Cuban Missile Crisis http://oyez.nwu.edu/history-out-loud/jfk/cuban/ Includes audiofiles documenting the crisis between Oct 18-29 1962, including JFK’s conversations with staff. David Turner’s Homepage http://www.canterbury.u-net.com/ Website of David Turner, a phd […]
[…] in the repeated bombing of Iraq and the wars in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.’ As a vivid example, Curtis reminds us of Blair’s support for the 1998 US missile attack on the Al Shifa plant in Sudan where 90 per cent of that very poor country’s pharmaceuticals were made. In words to be almost exactly […]
[…] US, dependent upon US weapons systems and intelligence from the US-dominated global surveillance system. (I don’t take seriously recent newspapers stories about the UK creating a defensive missile screen and building – or acquiring – new aircraft carriers.) He looks at the post-war Anglo-American relationship, and the initial experience of the Labour Government since […]
Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words ‘Tide’ or ‘Omo’. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a … Read more
[…] used by American military command to target bombing strikes over the north. Together with NSA stations in Thailand and the Philippines, it also monitored North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile sites, enabling warnings to be relayed to bomber crews in mid-flight, allowing them to chose the safest air corridors to their targets. Such help by the […]
On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced the … Read more
[…] 800 which suggested that the crash was not the result of an explosion in a fuel tank but the result of the plane being hit by a missile, probably from a US naval ship below it. As per usual the US state had not taken kindly to investigation of its error and persecuted those […]
[…] Cold War as at best irrelevant and at worst, in the right’s version, as a terrible mistake. In the other way of looking at it, the Cuban Missile Crisis had demonstrated that the Cold War had become so dangerous it had to be managed; and detente was that management. Detente had two major American […]
[…] the Cold War International History Project is out. Issues 8-9 is 400 plus A4 pages with archive material on a wide range of subjects including: the Cuban missile crisis; the 1956 Polish and Hungarian crises; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Cuans in Southern Africa, and the collapse of detente in the late 1970s. […]
