Sublime

After the Senate and House compromised on their separate proposals, the SOF reform legislation became law in 1986 (the 1987 Defense Authorization Bill).

Operation MONGOOSE. Right after the Bay of Pigs invasion attempt failed, Kennedy launched a major terrorist operation against Cuba [beginning November 30, 1961]. It was huge—I think it had a $50 million-a-year budget (that’s known);

"strike hard" campaigns, mentioned in chapter 2, officially emerged…

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The 1952 campaign saw the introduction of spot television advertising for political candidates. Pioneered by Rosser Reeves of the Ted Bates agency, the thirty-second political commercial soon set the tone of the Eisenhower campaign. Never one to overestimate the intelligence and attention span of his audience, Reeves sold Eisenhower to the

In the east, the Soviets launched their final winter offensive on January 12. As the Western Allies struggled to regain the initiative, the army groups of Field Marshals Georgy Zhukov, Ivan Konev, and Konstantin Rokossovsky, some four million men and ten thousand tanks, stormed forward along a two-hundred-mile front from the mountains of Bohemia to

Badgering elected officials into taking an interest in pandemics was one part of Sam’s strategy. The second part was getting some new pandemic warriors elected to Congress. Sam’s political operation had figured out, or thought they had, that it made a lot more sense to spend money in primary than in general elections. Voters could be swayed in