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The project was inspired by the late Paddy Griffith, a professional military historian on the staff of the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before becoming a full-time author and freelance historian and lecturer in the early 1990s. Paddy Griffith asked why the history of wargaming was poorly documented and why there ...
Welcome to the Cold War WikiProject.This project covers all articles about people, places, things, and events associated with the Cold War.We acknowledge that several of these articles, particularly relating to nations and individuals, also fall within the scope of other extant projects, and will not attempt to assert any sort of control over them.
The Project was founded in 1991 with the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is located in Washington D.C. As part of its mission, the CWIHP supports full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War , seeking to integrate new sources, materials and perspectives from the ...
Proud Prophet was a war game played by the United States that was designed by Thomas Schelling and began on June 20, 1983. [1] The simulation was played in real time during the Cold War. Proud Prophet was essentially played to test out various proposals and strategies, in response to the Soviet Union's military buildup.
Advanced War Games, Stanley Paul, London, (1965), ISBN 0-09-087350-5, reprinted 2008; War Game Campaigns, Stanley Paul (1963), Sport Shelf reprinted (1970) ISBN 9780392002769; War Game Campaigns, History of Wargaming Project Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Sport Shelf; First Edition (1 Jan. 1970), ISBN 978-0091024901
The Cold War defined the political role of the United States after World War II. By 1989, the United States had military alliances with 50 countries and 1.5 million troops posted abroad in 117 countries, which institutionalized a global commitment to a huge permanent peacetime military-industrial complex and the large-scale military funding of ...
The book series is in keeping with the goals of this project by disseminating knowledge gained from studying primary documents, including first hand accounts, and reviewing cold war events and themes from different perspectives, including hindsight. With the book series archival evidence is brought forward to the post-cold-war perspective.
His friend R. W. Davies said Carr belonged to the anti-Cold War school of history, which regarded the Soviet Union as the major progressive force in the world, the United States as the world's principal obstacle to the advancement of humanity and the Cold War as a case of American aggression against the Soviet Union.