Author: Nicola

Star Wars Ronald Reagan pledges to defeat the “evil empire,” but abhors the idea of nuclear war. He is prepared[…]

Spies  Even before the end of World War II, spies prepare for post-war world order. Beginning in 1944, KGB spies[…]

Soldiers of God Afghanistan is a brutal war that costs the lives of almost 15,000 Soviet conscripts and an estimated[…]

Freeze As the United States absorbs the hike in OPEC oil prices and concerns for human rights in the East[…]

Backyard The United States has always regarded Latin America as its own back yard. In 1954, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz[…]

Good Guys, Bad Guys Across the world, the two superpowers back surrogates engaging in ideological and, sometimes, physical conflict. In[…]

Detente The North Vietnamese overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South and the United States steps up its bombing campaign. Nixon[…]

China Chinese Communists are victorious in the longest civil war in 20th century history. Mao Zedong’s reforms are popular, but[…]

Red Spring In the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, denial of freedom and incentive stifles ambition and achievement. The young[…]

Make Love Not War Western Economies grow and prosper, fueled partly by armaments production. Rejecting their parents’ affluence and the[…]