Here s How North Korea Could Goad America and China Into War
War between the United States and China in Korea is unthinkable, but not impossible. Therefore, we have to think about it.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The original Korean War - from 1950 to 1953 - was horrific, but it was a limited war that was confined to the Korean Peninsula and did not involve the use of nuclear weapons. A second Korean War has no such guarantees.
War on the Korean Peninsula is almost too horrible to contemplate.
Nuclear-armed adversaries, fighting in densely populated urban terrain, could cause humanitarian disaster on a scale that the world has never seen. But the scenario might grow even worse. The last time that the United States fought North Korea, the People’s Republic of China intervened with destructive effect. The war lasted for three years, with heavy casualties on both sides. While both China and the United States have worked hard to prevent a recurrence of this catastrophe, the t
Every major power engaged in the conflict did organize some type of special forces.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The concept of the commando had arisen earlier, but during the Second World War, the exploits of the various sides special forces - the St. Nazaire Raid, prominently - became the stuff of legend.
The concept of elite or “special” forces matured during World War II, and the term became synonymous with extraordinary heroism, particularly against long odds. The editors of WWII History magazine have put together a Special Issue, World War II Special Forces, entirely devoted to these units and their actions during the war.
A Ship Made of Concrete? They Actually Existed During World War II
The fate of the remaining World War II concrete fleet was not as unique or entertaining as their predecessors of World War I.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The use of concrete was sparked by wartime shortages of steel; as they say, Necessity is the mother of invention.
It is a fact that war has sparked some amazing innovations. It has at the same time spawned incredible desperation. The attempt by the U.S. Navy in both world wars to construct seagoing vessels made of concrete would seem to be a combination of the two at first glance.
When North Korea Tried to Blackmail Israel with Missiles
“North Korea will sell, export, transfer and will engage in proliferation of WMDs whenever the price is right, the buyers are right, the timing is right and conditions are good.”
Here s What You Need To Remember: Israel turned North Korea down - and North Korean weapons mysteriously began to turn up in the hands of Israel s regional foes.
In 1999, North Korea tried to blackmail Israel: give us a billion dollars, it said, or we will sell ballistic missiles to your enemies.
But the Israelis turned them down.
That’s the claim made in a new book by a senior North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 2016. Thae Yong-ho’s book, “Cryptography From the Third-Floor Secretariat,” drew attention with its juicy revelations about Kim Jong-un’s family, including corruption and the obsession of the North Korean leader’s brother with rock star Eric Clapton.
The U.S. Reverse Engineered Hitler s Buzz Bomb - And Used It On Japan
The U.S. Army Air Force also wanted its own V-1s. It ordered concept work on ten different cruise missiles dubbed the JB (Jet Bomb) 1 through 10.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Wunderwaffe had been a strategic liability for the Germans, who shoveled resources into increasingly ludicrous weapons that could have been better used elsewhere. But it was a boon for the Allies, who piggybacked on captured German weapons and quickly reverse-engineered them.
Exactly one month after the first of thousands of Nazi V-1 “Buzz Bomb” cruise missiles began raining terror and death on London, a Dakota transport plane landed on July 13, 1944, at Wright-Patterson Field in Ohio bearing a sinister cargo: one ton of V-1 parts recovered from dud missiles.