Military Subjects & War Stories (Incldg the Cold War)

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Life Inside US Navy’s Most Feared Ships Patrolling the Oceans​

Oct 22, 2025
Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel, as we step aboard America’s guided-missile destroyers and discover how the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer dominates the seas.

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DYODD here.

Spies in the White House? Russian agents in the US | DW Documentary​

Oct 23, 2025 #trump #dwdocumentary #russia
Does the Russian secret service have a file on US President Donald Trump? To what extent are Russian interests present within American foreign policy? And - could there be a connection between the answers to these two questions?
US President Donald Trump has had ties to Russia for decades. In this documentary, former KGB, FBI and CIA employees offer insights into the world of espionage, the Cold War and Trump's extensive network of connections to Russia.
During the Cold War, numerous Russian agents infiltrated a variety of political and economic organizations in the US. In addition to industrial espionage, the missions also focused on establishing relationships with influential political figures.
Trump's ties to Russia date back to this period. In 1987, he traveled to Moscow with his then-wife, Ivana, to negotiate a deal to build a luxury hotel there. Semion Mogilevich, head of the Russian mafia, was one of the first investors in New York's Trump Tower. While campaigning for president in 2016, Donald Trump was simultaneously pursuing plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
Investigations into possible Kremlin interference in the presidential election reveal that more than a dozen members of the Republican campaign team had ties to Russia. And the war against Ukraine further complicates the situation: Russian President Vladimir Putin would have a keen interest in an ally who could weaken Ukraine and help him win.

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The Cold War Menagerie: How Animals were used to wage The Cold War​

Oct 26, 2025 #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History
Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at three examples of how animals were proposed to be used to wage the Cold War. The first is the CIA's project Acoustic Kitty, a remote control spy cat. The second is Project Blue Peacock, the British use of chickens to detonate atomic bombs. And the third example is the Soviet training of dolphins for underwater operations.

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*SOURCES*
- https://www.theatlantic.com/internati...
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465...
- https://www.popsci.com/science/articl...
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...
- https://documents.theblackvault.com/d...
- / the-25-weirdest-u-s-government-documents-e...
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/blue-...
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/...
- https://www.sfgate.com/science/articl...
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
- https://www.livescience.com/russians-...
- https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reb...
- https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/12/...
 
Deep-Sea Stories with Master Diver Fernando Lugo

Master Diver Fernando Lugo discusses how his life changed after joining the military and attending Navy boot camp in San Diego, California. Fernando enlisted as a Machinist Mate, unaware of the undersea journey that awaited him in the future. MDV Lugo's career, Deep-Sea Stories, is about him and the Deep-Sea Divers he served with, pioneering a Navy Dive capability that contributed to the end of the Cold War.
These riveting Deep-Sea Stories center around MDV Lugo's time on the Navy's Sea Lab III project. He discusses how he and his experimental dive team contributed to the development of deep-dive decompression tables and schedules, as well as the engineering of dive system valve placement to maximize human dive system operational performance. A few of his team members that he mentions are Don Risk, P. A. Wells, Bob Barth, Jay Meyer, Jack Smith, Billy Kaughman, Pete Rugdon, Frank Reando, and Berry Cannon.
Fernando gives great credit to his parents, who instilled into him a strong work ethic that he needed to endure his challenging career. "I never thought of myself as a pioneer in saturation diving. We wanted to prove that it could work," stated Master Diver Lugo, paving the way for the future of Navy Saturation Diving. Read more about Master Diver Fernando Lugo and his dive team aquanauts in a myriad of publications, including Sea Lab III: A Divers Story by author Kevin Hardy.

 
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More neat diver stories here

Ross Garcia

Deep-Sea Stories about Navy Divers we served with.
www.anavymasterdiversadventure.com
 

TFR 251 - Jack McFarland DEA Career Podcast​


Oct 30, 2025 Tactical Fitness Reports - Podcasts
Stew Smith and Jack McFarland (retired DEA) discuss Jack's journey as he prepared for a career in the DEA, his DEA training, missions, and the process to become a DEA agent.
Check out https://www.JackMcFarlandDEA.com for more information on contacting Jack McFarland - Supervisory Special Agent at U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Retired, Keynote Motivational Speaker, Consultant to Law Enforcement.

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Skorzeny's Last Battle - The Schwedt Bridgehead 1945 (Ep.1)​

Premiered 99 minutes ago
In early 1945, Hitler's commando leader Otto Skorzeny was detailed by Himmler to create and hold a bridgehead over the Oder River, Germany's last water barrier before Berlin as Himmler planned to use it to launch a counter-offensive and stop the Soviets. This was the Schwedt Bridgehead and this is its story.

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When Logistics Decided Victory: The Battle of Leyte Gulf​

The U.S. military faces a critical vulnerability that could determine the outcome of any future conflict in the Indo-Pacific. While Force Design and joint modernization efforts have produced a more capable fighting force, the Sea Services have failed to remedy systemic shortfalls within their logistics enterprise. This assessment applies not only to potential Ukraine-like conflicts, but also to the far more demanding task of fighting a naval campaign in the Indo-Pacific. As a Marine logistician who has operated alongside our Marines facing sustainment challenges across the theater, I write from direct experience: Logistics remains the Sea Services’ operational Achilles’ heel.

Read it all here:

 

Himmler's Russian SS - The Horrific Kaminski Brigade​

Nov 6, 2025
The Kaminski Brigade of Russian SS were so cruel and murderous that it has been suspected that Himmler ordered their liquidation. Who was Kaminski and what were the crimes of his brigade of former Soviet POWs?

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Nobody should be forbidden to speak any language in schools, whether it be French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Esperanto, or Swahili. All the non-language courses must be in English, of course. And all students must understand English. But if some students like practicing a non-English language outside of class, that should be fine. I would have been against any prohibition on me using German or Russian with my classmates.
 

How Terrorism came to West Germany: The Red Army Faction​

Nov 16, 2025 #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History
Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at The Red Army Faction, a left-wing terrorist organization active in Germany in the later half of the Cold War.

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Sources can be found below the vid on youtube.
 

Hermann Göring's Drug Addiction - New Evidence​

Premiered 35 minutes ago
It has often been stated that Hermann Göring was a drug addict, but recently tv presenter and antique dealer Billy Leroy purchased two letters written by Göring in 1925 that confirm his addiction and what exactly he was addicted to!
Special thanks to Mr. Leroy for kindly sharing his discovery of Göring's letters with me. For more on Mr. Leroy and his work, click here: https://www.instagram.com/billyleroyn...

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