The Berlin Airlift, 75 years on
On June 24, 1948 the Soviets imposed the Berlin Blockade, barring Western Allies from using road, rail and waterways from western Germany to their occupation z
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Air Force Veteran Gail 'Candy Bomber' Halvorsen Dies at 101
Col. Gail "Candy Bomber" S. Halvorsen, a pilot that dropped 23 tons of candy during the Berlin Airlift to starving German children, has passed away at 101.
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A Berlin Strategy: How Should America Respond to China's Taiwan Threats
By courting risk—and by imposing risk on that antagonist. The United States must embrace risk for its strategy vis-à-vis an increasingly domineering Communist China to succeed. Fortunately for makers of American strategy, the Cold War past furnishes ample precedent for how to manage risk in the Indo-Pacific in the here and now. I speak of Berlin. In the aftermath of World War II, ravaged by strategic bombing and Soviet Army rapine, the German capital found itself an enclave stranded within Soviet-occupied eastern Germany. Postwar Allied cooperation—such as it was—broke down by mid-...
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