The MAD doctrine was supposed to stop NATO and the Warsaw Pact going to war with each other. It worked during the Cold War because each bloc didn't intervene militarily in each others proxy wars… (View Post)

If NATO had intervened in every act of Russian aggression we'd be the second or third generation growing up in the nuclear wasteland. What Russia did to Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan w… (View Post)

You either exclusively studied modern history or you were a terrible student. We don't have a magic TV where we can see the past as it actually happened. All we can do is look at the sources and… (View Post)

This sounds like HYUFD hasn't been inside a history department for about 40 years. When I was studying history there was only one Marxist in the department and he was considered something of a l… (View Post)

Ah man I'd love to be able to send that to my Dad who is a Napoleonic Wars and Cricket obsessive. Why do the two seem to go together? (View Post)