The 7-Nation Battleship Arms Race Ended by World War II
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China s Military is Catching Up Fast and It s Too Late To Stop Them
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Heralds of Destruction: Five Killer Submarines of the Cold War
The United States and the Soviet Union were the main players in the Cold War submarine campaign, but were hardly the only entrants.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Large, fast, and quiet, the Permit class set that standard for American and British submarines for the rest of the Cold War. Developed with a series of innovations that set them apart from their predecessors, the Skipjack class, the Permits immediately became state of the undersea art. These innovations included powerful bow sonar, a streamlined, deep-dive capable hull, and advanced quieting technology.
Costly Mistake: Bush s Iraq Invasion Forever Changed The World
The enduring cost of the Iraq invasion comes in the form of the thousands of dead Americans, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The biggest effects of the Iraq War, and the most enduring limitations, may have come in how the conflict affected the U.S. military, and changed the attitudes of Americans toward the use of force.
Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the save button before engaging in the risky, stupid invasion of foreign country. In the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it became apparent after the first few months that the war was not working out as its framers had envisioned. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction was only the icing, so to speak, on the disaster of failed reconciliation, state collapse, and executive incompetence.