Christos military and intelligence corner

It seems that during WWII the British codebreakers did not have much respect for the security of US diplomatic communications: ...

Thanks to help from Ralph Erskine another interesting file turns up. Now we all know the evils of communism. Gulag, censorship, propaganda...

In 1944 the German High Command knew that the Anglo-Americans would stage a cross channel landing into France. If they succeeded it would ...

The military conflicts between Saddam’s Iraq and the US coalition in Gulf war I and in 2003 are usually assumed to have been completely one ...

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 they were surprised to come across tanks that were superior to their own in ...

I made the following changes in Tank strength and losses – Eastern Front : Added ‘ Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933 – 1945 ...

In the 1930’s the British SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) collected information from European targets through two parallel systems. On the...