The article below is a succeeding article that approaches art in the Vietnam War from a different perspective from it’s sister. This one was drafted my senior year at a totally different institution from the first, and includes a few more nuances of my current stance on subject matter. Again,Continue Reading
The article listed below is what I like to call, evidence of education through trial and error. This was composed my second year of undergrad – at a university that offered no military history courses and barely afforded any honor or homage to the military profession. It has a sisterContinue Reading
The B-29 bomber has worked it’s way into the annals of history through various means. It was a B-29 that set dozens of flight length records between 1948 and 1952, and it was the B-29 to function as the first dedicated reconnaissance platform and the first airborne refueling platform. However,Continue Reading
The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program was born out of a 1993 requirement by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The requirement established the launch of Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter (CALF) program that put forth a proposition for DoD aircraft to unify airframes across all branches. This was hardly unprecedented,Continue Reading
It’s a typical pattern of evolution. Each generation recognizes something that was absurd or incredible in the past as ordinary in the present. As time passes, evolution takes hold again, and we are left in awe of something new and truly amazing once again. Mankind is full of such advancementsContinue Reading
Everyone is familiar with the concept of cause and effect. For every action, there is a reaction of the same or lesser magnitude. Sometimes the resulting reaction is just the first in a chain of events that leads up to something else. A chain reaction, that’s what one might callContinue Reading
Large caliber artillery is not unique to the modern era, nor is it unique to the Cold War where many large artillery pieces were engineered and produced. The largest artillery pieces can trace themselves back well before World War I. However, it was during World War I and the deploymentContinue Reading
This is one of those ideas that you read about and it just makes you scratch your head. There are many different versions of ideas like this: the “is that really a good idea?”; the “no way”; and the “oh God, I gotta see this.” Fortunately, the Davy Crockett fulfillsContinue Reading
The Cold War exhibited some the greatest inventions that mankind had to offer and provided the springboard that propelled technology and innovation ultimately to where we find ourselves today. The Atomic Age, confined within the Cold War era, not only embodied the advancement of nuclear technology, but it also includedContinue Reading
Over the course of the Cold War, world powers found themselves constantly at odds with each other. Nuclear testing was rampant. Atomic research was unchecked. Safety procedures were limited. The name of the game was espionage, spying, and various other forms of information gathering. After all, this was the definitionContinue Reading
