Essentially What Ended the Cold War? (Non-Rocky Variant) Part II

In part one we learned that planned/communist systems tend to stagnate an economy, while market/capitalist systems lend themselves to growth in the economy. (Remember, that this is a highly simplified explanation.)
Now we’ll look at why this helped lead the end of the Cold War. Really, it’s very simple. As the Cold War entered it’s fifth [...]

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Flags of Our Fathers Reviewed

Last night after I finished reading Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and turned out the light, I laid wide-eyed and awake in my warm comfortable bed and wondered if I could have endured what the Marines who conquered Iwo Jima endured. As I lay staring at the orange glow of my alarm clock, [...]

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Shifting Sands of the MIddle East

Here is a pretty cool map animation that shows the various Middle Eastern empires over the centuries. Enjoy.

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Essentially, what ended the Cold War? (Non-Rocky variant)

The answer to this question kept getting longer and longer, so I’ve decided to break it into three parts so as not to frighten away my loyal readership, at least not any more than usual. This post constitutes part 1.

The reasons for the Cold War’s end are larely economic. Since the Cold War was a, [...]

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