I read a great post here a while ago on how both sides planned for the conflict in Europe to go down. I'm curious about ancillary theaters that may have developed -- I'm thinking in the middle east or pacific. Anything about troop commitments, casualty projections, strategic decisions that have been declassified would be appreciated!
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I couldn't find any information about it on the internet, and I'm not willing to go through Plato's work searching it.
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I came across this fictional scenario and the thought occurred to me, what sort of chemical warfare measures were actually in place, or perhaps were planned for/prototyped/whatever for that eventuality?
I thought to dig up some reenactors, but I think this is a bit beyond that level.
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I have poured through a lot of American works that looked at American-Cuban, American-USSR and a bit of Cuban-USSR relations but not a whole lot of representation of what Nikita Khrushev's motivations might have been. Could you recommend any articles.
Edit: I should probably mention what I have encountered the Wilson Institution which has quite a few letters between Cuba and the USSR. Unfortunately they are either in Russian or Spanish. If anyone knows any
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This is in response to a previous question I asked some months ago, wherein I was told that Japanese air and surface search radars didn't have a spinning PPI scope. How would such primitive radars be able to detect incoming airplanes and ships on the surface?
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I recently heard that the Soviet Union sold significantly inferior weapons and equipment to their allies outside of the Eastern Bloc. Wikipedia says that 'the the model had the benefit of disinformation when an exported monkey model fell into the hands of Western intelligence, who "naturally gained a completely false impression of the true combat capabilities"' This seems like poor planning to me, was this the only reason? Wouldn't this significantly hurt the Soviet Union in proxy conflicts and wouldn't their allies outside of Europe realize that they were being sold inferior equipment?
I don't really understand the reasoning for this, maybe I'm extremely underestimating the significance of disinformation, but this strategy, to me, seems to hurt the Soviet Union much more than the United States.
Also as a side question, the Wikipedia article states that the Monkey Model was sold mainly by Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Is this one of the key reasons for Syria and Egypt's failure in defeating Israel?
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Okay, I have little to no knowledge on this whatsoever, and I have no idea what to look up or else I would have found this out myself. Basically I hear a lot about there being an emperor, and under an emperor a caesar and that there were 2 emperors and 4 caesars? Could someone please correct me and explain what this is? Thank you.
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How do I cite census information found on ancestry.com using Chicago Manual of Style? I can't seem to find examples anywhere. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Being from Brazil, I was reading that list and also remembered that recent finding, and I started wondering whether there could be any historical process by which Latin America acquired such high rates of criminal violence.
I know that this question could be asked to social studies (e.g., a matter of classes or institutions) or to economics (e.g., it's all about wealth inequality), but I was rather interested on the historic perspective of this subject.
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Is Osiris the oldest God with the resurrection motif that you see in many other mythologies later on?
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Followup question, how did they usually handle said symptoms. How were they viewed in society?
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Let's say this is pre-Spartacus Rome, so people aren't freaking out about slave revolts. I am a slave to a wealthy patrician. I have a good knack for negotiation from my previous life in Greece, so I do a lot of business on his account since he is Patrician and prohibited from straight commerce. Now let's say one of my frequent business associates is a slave from another Patrician family who is similarly valuable to his master. We make a lot of money for both of them. However, he pisses me off, as he constantly makes disparaging remarks about my heritage (he was from a higher social class in Greece.) Now one day, I come to do business with him, only to find him fucking a slave girl who I've had my eye on for a while. Enraged, I grab a pot and smash him in the back of the head with it, killing him instantly. A recently freed woman witnesses the event, so there's clear proof what transpired. The guy I killed was only a slave, so it doesn't seem like it would be a capital offense, on the other hand, he was the property of his Master, and valuable property at that. What happens to me now?
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There's lots of talk, and rigthly so, about the escapes when the wall was there but what about before the wall. Who were the people that stayed? The arguments for staying have likely been strong because so many left. Maybe some people also moved in East Berlin during this period?
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You're living in Constantinople in the 10th century. Do you regard tales of Rome's expansion over 1000 years ago as a factual account of prior events? Or more like an apocryphal tale of an empire that spanned the known world before falling into terminal decline?
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I have been told by 2 different people, with no sources, that chivalry arose from the flood of men coming back from the Crusades suffering from what we would now classify as PTSD. Is there any truth to this? Would the same apply to other honor codes around the world like Bushido?
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