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Could you recommend me any good book about Cold War? If it includes topics like the origins and development of the CIA's and it psyops and Vietnam War I'll appreciate it.

>> No.16999213

>>16999178
General:
>Anything by Odd Arne Westad
>The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
>The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins

CIA in that period:
>Killing Hope by William Blum (free to download from the CIA's own archives as it was among bin Laden's collection)
>The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America byAlfred W. McCoy
>Whiteout by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair

Vietnam in particular:
>Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

>> No.16999225

>>16999213
Are those honest perspectives or communist drivel?

>> No.16999249

>>16999225
You are tiresome.

I got that from from reading a single sentence of yours, how must those around you feel?

>> No.16999263
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16999263

All you need to know is encompassed in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by Mearsheimer (pbuh). He even proves that a limited nuclear war with China is actually desirable and that we should nuke the Chinks asap before they can strike back.

>> No.16999438

>>16999263
Based.

>> No.17000411

>>16999178
>Could you recommend me any good book about Cold War
Herbert Feis's "Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War 1945 - 1950" would be a standard liberal account about ebil Stalin. D. F. Fleming's "The Cold War and Its Origins" was the first big revisionist account which blames the west and claims Stalin was rationally smooth brained.

>> No.17000436

Most cold war books are either "US dindu nuffin" or "Soviets dindu nuffin".

>> No.17000445

>>16999178
James Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition

>> No.17000456 [DELETED] 

Politics have been onions since WW1.

>> No.17000461 [DELETED] 

>>17000456
By which I mean not after but starting with WW1. First world especially has been ultrasoy after the Cold War. No more military dictatorships, coups, imperialism..the Third World is still fine though they have plenty of coups.

>> No.17000463

>>16999178
Can you tell me about the mafia and cia working together to launder money for black book projects? Teach me of the shell companies so I too can become a millionaire without having it all taxed away

>> No.17000475

>>17000463
Like back in the day they had a shell company purchasing titanium from Russia which was used to make some aircraft for spying on Russia, they supplied their own enemy for $$$

>> No.17000483

>>17000463
Any glowies reading this my company makes 11-12 million a year, come buy it and give me a raise

>> No.17001110

>>16999249
It’s communist drivel.

I got that from reading two sentences of yours, OP and I know better now.