Secret Military Research Articles

Memory dissonance and competitive discourses about the past on the example of the legacy of the “Gryf Pomorski” Secret Military Organisation

Memory dissonance and competitive discourses about the past on the example of the legacy of the “Gryf Pomorski” Secret Military Organisation

Kryzhanovsky as a Figure in Anti-Bolshevik Movement of Urals and Siberia in 1918—1920

The article is dedicated to the history of the Yekaterinburg Secret Military Organization, which prepared an uprising against Soviet authority. It introduces new information into academic discourse regarding its covert operations in the spring and summer of 1918. The existing historiographic views on the leadership composition and structure of the Yekaterinburg Secret Military Organization have been expanded. The role of one of its previously unknown participants, the mining engineer Yuri Ilyich Kryzhanovsky, within the organization has been revealed. It has been proven that Yuri I. Kryzhanovsky was one of the leaders of the Yekaterinburg Secret Military Organization, and that the headquarters of the underground movement was located in his father’s house. Key milestones in Kryzhanovsky’s biography have been established, including the final period associated with his service in Admiral Kolchak’s army. Kryzhanovsky’s connections with Major General A. N. Grishin-Almazov, commander of the Siberian Army, and the renowned revolutionary B. V. Savinkov are demonstrated. It is proven that Yuri I. Kryzhanovsky participated in the creation of the All-Russian National Union in the city of Ufa and subsequently joined the leadership of the Yekaterinburg branch of the All-Russian National Union. The primary sources for reconstructing the biography of Yuri I. Kryzhanovsky were award documents from Kolchak’s army and newspaper materials.

Agent Blue: A Secret Military and Environmental Chemical Weapon Used for Food Denial in South Vietnam during the Vietnam Civil War (1962-1965)

Agent Blue: A Secret Military and Environmental Chemical Weapon Used for Food Denial in South Vietnam during the Vietnam Civil War (1962-1965)

Analyzing the Truth about China’s Belt and Road Initiative

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), formerly known as One Belt One Road Initiative, is China’s and President Xi Jinping’s ambitious policy that globally fosters infrastructure and economic development in an effort to create a trade network with African and European countries with China as the central hub. Founded in 2013, the BRI has historically sought out third-world and developing nations that are abandoned by the West and offered loans to fund infrastructure and economic stimulus projects. However, out of a number of successful projects, a few failed economic ventures in BRI countries resulted in the third world perspective of the BRI inaccurately shifting from mutually beneficial to predatory debt-trap diplomacy. In reality, there is no evidence of China purposely bankrupting BRI countries in order to achieve a secret military or neo - colonial agenda and in fact, China has been a net economic benefit to the majority of BRI countries. This paper will disprove the “debt-trap narrative”, argue for the benefits of the BRI, and recommend that in order to overcome this perceived predatory perspective of the BRI, China needs to be clearer about their interests in BRI countries and reshape the adversarial debtor-collector relationships that they approach BRI countries with.

Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen, Camp Century. The Untold Story of America’s Secret Military Base under the Greenland Ice (Ingo Heidbrink)

Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen, Camp Century. The Untold Story of America’s Secret Military Base under the Greenland Ice (Ingo Heidbrink)

Leaking of Secret Military Reports Qualifies As Reporting of Current Events

Case comment of German Federal Supreme Court, Judgment of 30 April 2020, I ZR 139/15 – “Afghanistan Papiere II”. The German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) follows the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in its interpretation of the exception for the reporting of current events.

Africa's ‘Little Israel’: Bophuthatswana's Not-So-Secret Ties With Israel

ABSTRACT Since its inception in the early 1970s, the secret military and nuclear alliance between the Israeli state and apartheid South Africa has been the subject of much debate. Given its sensitive nature, however, much of the content of such a relationship was for a long time inaccessible and could only be inferred. Whereas the Israeli–South African military alliance had to be kept in the dark or remain ‘unspoken’, there is another relationship between these two countries which was very public in its day, and yet it appears to have been largely forgotten, despite the high visibility of the physical traces it has left impressed on South Africa's landscape. The relationship in question, which started as an offshoot of the Pretoria–Jerusalem axis and forms the subject of this article, is the one between Israel and the Bophuthatswana bantustan during the 1980s and early 1990s.

"Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base," Annie Jacobsen (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011)

"Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base," Annie Jacobsen (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011)

H. Tani: Secret Military History of the Russo-Japanese War

H. Tani: Secret Military History of the Russo-Japanese War

John A. Fahey, Licensed to Spy: With the Top Secret Military Liaison Mission in East Germany. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002. 240 pp. $25.95. William Glenn Gray, Germany's Cold War: The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949–1969. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2003. 351 pp.

John A. Fahey, <i>Licensed to Spy: With the Top Secret Military Liaison Mission in East Germany</i>. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002. 240 pp. $25.95. William Glenn Gray, Germany's Cold War: The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949–1969. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2003. 351 pp.

Media Marathon: A Twentieth-Century Memoir

How is history produced? How do individuals write-or rewrite-their parts while engaged in the production of history? Michael Lynch and David Bogen take the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions. These hearings, held in 1987 by the Joint House-Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaragua Opposition, provided the nation with a media spectacle and a rare chance to see a struggle over the writing of history. There was Oliver North, prime suspect and designated scapegoat, turning into a hero of the American Right before the very eyes of the nation. How this transformation occurred, with the complicity of the press and the public, becomes disturbingly clear in The Spectacle of History. Lynch and Bogen detail the practices through which the historical agents at the center of the hearings composed, confirmed, used, erased, and denied the historical record. They show how partisan skirmishes over the disclosure of records and testimony led to a divided and irresolute outcome, an outcome further facilitated by the applied deconstruction deployed by North and his allies. The Spectacle of History immerses the reader in a crowded field of texts, utterances, visual displays, and media commentaries, but, more than a case study, it develops unique insight into problems at the heart of society and social theory-lying and credibility, the production of civic spectacle, the relationship between testimony and history, the uses of memory, and the interplay between speech and writing. Drawing on themes from sociology, literary theory, and ethnomethodology and challenging prevailing concepts held by contemporary communication and cultural studies, Lynch and Bogen extract valuable theoretical lessons from this specific and troubling historical episode.

Rapallo Reexamined: A New Look at Germany's Secret Military Collaboration with Russia in 1922

Rapallo Reexamined: A New Look at Germany's Secret Military Collaboration with Russia in 1922

China's Secret Military Papers: Military Doctrine and Strategy

Peking's pronouncements in the Sino-Soviet dispute have left the public with an image of a reckless and bellicose Chinese Communist régime. This image has been reinforced by the Soviet Union, which has exaggerated the Chinese statements and their significance to paint an over-simplified contrast between the supposed Chinese addiction to war and Soviet dedication to peace.

Problems of Chinese Communist Leadership as Seen in the Secret Military Papers

Problems of Chinese Communist Leadership as Seen in the Secret Military Papers

China's Secret Military Papers: ‘Continuities’ and ‘Revelations’

China's rulers in 1961 surveyed their shattered dreams and then, with studied self-confidence, hailed the vitality of their revolutionary “mass-line” credo. This resolute re-affirmation of standard principles had a hollow ring, however, and doubts about the “real methods of control” employed during the years of retreat and readjustment coincided with angry charges that the language of the “mass-line” disguised terror and brutality on an appalling scale. In the confusion, fact has until recently seemed entwined irretrievably with propaganda and invective, but now a unique collection of the Kung-tso T'ung-hsun (Bulletin of Activities) makes it possible to disentangle the contradictory methods of control and leadership used in 1961 and to evaluate their widely varied effects in that crucial year.

China's Secret Military Papers

On August 5, 1963, the State Department released a set of secret Chinese military papers, which is the most illuminating first-hand material that scholars have had on the Chinese Communists since the Hoover Institution acquired the Yenan Documents in the mid-forties.

Problems of Chinese Communist Leadership as Seen in the Secret Military Papers

Research Article| June 01 1964 Problems of Chinese Communist Leadership as Seen in the Secret Military Papers J. Chester Cheng J. Chester Cheng Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1935) 4 (6): 861–872. https://doi.org/10.2307/3023524 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation J. Chester Cheng; Problems of Chinese Communist Leadership as Seen in the Secret Military Papers. Far Eastern Survey 27 March 1935; 4 (6): 861–872. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3023524 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.