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In December 1950, with the Korean War in progress, National Intelligence Estimate 15 was issued: "Probable Soviet Moves to Exploit the Present Situation". [1] It began with the estimate that "USSR-Satellite treatment of Korean developments, k, indicates that they assess their current military and political position as one of great strength in comparison with that of the West, and that they ...
NSC 68 was drafted under the guidance of Paul H. Nitze, Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, 1950–1953.. By 1950, U.S. national security policies required reexamination due to a series of events: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was operational, military assistance for European allies had begun, the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb and ...
US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger presenting President Ronald Reagan with the first copy of Soviet Military Power. Soviet Military Power was a public diplomacy publication of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which provided an estimate of the military strategy and capabilities of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War, ostensibly to alert the US public to the ...
After the end of World War II, all the Western allies began a rapid drawdown of military forces, including those of signals intelligence. At the time, the US still had a COMINT organization split between the Army and Navy. [1] A 1946 plan listed Russia, China, and a [redacted] country as high-priority targets.
US special operations forces could be leveraged in ways similar to the way they were in the Cold War as the US military focuses on China and Russia.
Military attaches of foreign embassies visiting the exhibition of remains of U.S. U-2 spy-in-the-sky aircraft destroyed May 1, 1960 near Sverdlovsk (currently Yekaterinburg). Throughout the Cold War, acts of espionage, or spying, became prevalent as tension between the United States and Soviet Union increased. [1]
The international world order is under threat in a way not seen since the Cold War, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned.. In the first joint op-ed penned by the leaders of the British and ...
Nato has announced the formal suspension of a key Cold War-era armed forces treaty in the wake of Russia withdrawing from the deal.. The alliance said that members who signed the Treaty of ...