The Soviet Union Lost the Cold War, but American Defense Spending did not Defeat it. A critical analysis of the Soviet Economy's effect on the end of the Cold War Introduction The end of the Cold War is heralded as one of the defining moments of the 1980s. ... of nuclear war was a reality. Later, as the war finally drew to a close in the late 1980s many theorists and scholars rushed to call a winner. In his book, How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Dinesh D'Souza pronounces Reagan the clear winner due to his hard line stance on foreign policy towards the USSR. However, upon c...

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... he pointed to the problem within the Russian Imperial Army that the majority of aristocratic generals and officers neglected their troops and had little understanding, or esprit connection, with the ordinary peasant soldiers. He had been decorated for his bravery, and been wounded too, by March 1917 as the revolution, and change of government, swept away the old monarchist order. His ... Kwantung Army three to two in infantry, by three squadrons in cavalry, and possessed a qualitative edge in armor. But above all, his army was to show a marked superiority in intelligence analysis, comma...

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