Cuban Missile Crisis: Consensus, Announcement and DEFCON-2
The two weeks following the discovery of a Soviet R-12/SS-4 Sandal Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) regiment in Western Cuba …
Conflicts & Operations
U-2 Pilot Maj. Rudy Anderson: The Only American Killed During the Cuban Missile Crisis
An American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft high over Cuba took photos of Soviet missile sites capable of launching nuclear warheads at …
Cuban Missile Crisis Anniversary: Discovery
From the moment the first ships of the Anadyr deployment fleet left their moorings, they sailed straight into a network …
U.S. Navy Missile Defense: Getting Surface-to-Air Missile Development Started
While the U.S. Navy has enjoyed unprecedented success in developing surface-to-air missiles for fleet air defense the path to success …
Cuban Missile Crisis: Operation Anadyr
Operation Anadyr, named after a river in Far Eastern Russia, was the largest out-of-area deployment ever made by the Soviets, …
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, OPLAN 314/316, and Khrushchev’s Decision
As many problems as Nikita Khrushchev had in early 1962, another was beginning to fester in the one foothold he …
Sikorsky H-5 Combat Rescue in Korea
It was a hairy rescue that began ordinarily enough.
First Lieutenant Charles H. Field was the pilot of the 3rd …
Gandhi Tells Great Britain: Quit India! Now!
“The mantra is: ‘Do or Die.’ We shall either free India or die in the attempt.”
—Mahandas Gandhi
In the …
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Berlin Crisis, the Bay of Pigs, and the Soviet Bluff Called
As if the unequal East-West strategic nuclear forces balance was not enough of a problem, Nikita Khrushchev was also dealing …
Director Frank Capra Goes to War
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall had been aware as early as July 1941 that most troops, having grown …