Cold War History - Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?

By Patrick Pacalo, PhD, CAPT (AUS), CP

Certified Paralegal

VA Registered Veterans Claims Agent


In 1918, American President Woodrow Wilson played a role in the Cold War, it is true, and you might have thought the Cold War did not start until the 1940s. Wilson tried to stop the "red terror" in the then newly born USSR in order to help the average Russian. The effort to stop communism in its tracks failed only after US and Soviet troops were locked in combat over frozen ground. From 1949 to 1991 the USA and USSR played nuclear brinksmanship over the same ideological issues as they had fought over in 1918. Decades had passed but the ideologies of democracy and communism were still opposed to each other, and rightly so. Communism resulted in the mass murder of millions of human beings (and it is not over yet, just look at China and North korea). As a result this split, the American CIA and Soviet KGB squared off using covert action. Then, because of these still differing ideologies, the world split into what was called Eastern (Soviet sponsored) and the Western (US sponsored) alliances such as NATO and the Warsaw Pact (both of these were centered around the European ideological conflict). At the same time mainland China was added to the list of communist countries. A major war was fought over which side would control Korea in the 50's, and the country remains split today into communist and democratic parcels; fighting between the two Koreas, and skirmishes often involving US troops are common to date. US military forces were deployed and engaged not just in Korea but around the globe. In the 60's and 70's came the defeat of the West (primarily the US) in Vietnam. A victory of sorts came when the Soviet Union broke apart after the Communist Army staged, or rather attempted, a coup in the summer of 1991 which led to the disintegration of the country in December 1991. The numerous Cold War links below will lead you in many directions in search of Cold War facts. In addition, the newest volumes in the Cold Warfare history book series -
Eastern Europe: Cold Warfare III (2010) & The Liberty Cipher: Cold Warfare IV (2011) are described further below. The first volume - Cold Warfare: A Compact History (2004); and volume two - Cold Warfare II: Political Terror (2008) are also described. author biography

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Patrick Pacalo Presents Cold Warfare book to Municipal Library of Fagaras, Romania, 2008

Ideology and the Real Origins of the Cold War (1848 - 1918)

Cold War Era Terrorism - Presidential and Other Quotes

The Military Situation v the Reds in 1918

Cold War Related 9/11 Links


Cold War Hotlinks

Cold War Truth

The Intelligent Forager base site

Cold War history search terms | A US Government Study of the Former Soviet Union

The United States Central Intelligence Agency | The Soviet Secret Police (KGB)

Cold War History Conundrum - Covert Action

The United States National Archives | The United States Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)

The Museum of Communism

The Cold War Museum

Cold War recognition certificate | The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)

The National Security Archive | 464th Chemical Brigade (USAR)

US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) | 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square China

Human Rights in China (HRIC) | Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the US Army War College

National Museum of Naval Aviation | US Army Military History Institute

US Marine Corps History Division | Rescue Mission 'Urgent Fury' 1983: the Invasion of Grenada

National Museum of the United States Air Force | The US Department of State

Kennan, Colby, and Containment | Eastern Europe: Military Archives

Cold War terror leaders Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal in Baghdad prior to US invsion. Global terrorists were tied in to the the Soviet, Iraqi, and Syrian governments for many years. The writings of former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and other sources document these nations' support for such terrorists.



The Liberty Cipher: Cold Warfare IV ©2011 By Patrick Pacalo

Synopsis of Volume IV: On 8 June 1967, the USS Liberty, a lightly armed electronic listening ship flying the American flag on a clear day, was attacked in international waters and nearly sunk by Israeli Defense Forces air and naval units. The US Navy and the Johnson Administration covered up the fact that the attack was deliberate. Now, over forty years after the attack, the truth can be discerned. From analysis of now public accounts and old policy truths we can see that it was the Israeli intention to communicate to the US military that is should not cooperate with the Soviets in forcing the Israelis to settle the raging 1967 mid-East war. As the book reveals even the US Navy's report, done under pressure from the Johnson Administration White House, tells the reader that the attack was highly coordinated and th report was rushed. Experienced researcher-writer Patrick Pacalo peels back the layers of the formerly classified onion revealing the only possible truth about the action.



Eastern Europe: Cold Warfare III ©2010 By Patrick Pacalo

Synopsis of Volume III: This volume digs deep into documents long dormant in the National Archives and the records of the Central intelligence Agency. Days passed when nations, Communist and Free, were close to war and that it might commence between Eastern and Western Europe. One 1940s fear on the part of the CIA was that Soviet troops would withdraw from East Germany, leaving it to America and her allies to withdraw troops from West Germany. At this time the Soviets were helping to build a 100,000 strong military-style native German police force. West Germany had only a few civilian-style police. As the postulation went, this would leave the East in a position to storm into West Germany with its military police force. This possibility, that never happened is supported by documents dated 1949, and cited in the text of Eastern Europe: Cold Warfare III. Each Eastern European nation was different in how it adapted to communism and how it threw it off. It is clear that the East European peoples were both captives and in many cases willing participants in global communist expansion. Not only did these nations send arms around the world, they sent "security advisers."

Sources for Eastern Europe: Cold Warfare III include the National Archives, the CIA, the National Security Archive, presidential papers, and the Youngstown State University Library Federal Depository section.

ISBN: 978-1-4489-7268-5 - available at www.publishamerica.com and other book outlets.



Cold Warfare: A Compact History
©2004 By Patrick Pacalo

Synopsis of Volume I: George Washington (I realize he was not alive during the 20th century, but hang with me here), while engaging the British in North America, put the wheels of covert action into motion over 50 years before Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto (does this heap blame for the Cold War on the US? I do not think so).

The importance of the Manifesto is that it put the soon to develop Soviet state (whose leaders bought into Marxism before taking power) directly opposed to the democracies of the world in the 20th century. What evolved in 1947 & 1948, some one hundred years after Marx's writing, was a CIA capable of covert paramilitary operations.

George Kennan (US State Department) stated that what was needed was not a "department of dirty tricks," but then stated that the CIA would operate in peacetime with operations including sabotage and guerilla war (the decision was not to take the Soviet line of garbage). The means for this action was National Security Council memorandum 10/2.

Cold Warfare: A Compact History is accurately documented with hundreds of footnotes. The prestigious sources used are formerly classified CIA and OSS records, presidential papers, and records from both the National Archives and the National Security Archive. The book also includes an interview with the famed releaser of the "Pentagon Papers," Daniel Ellsberg.

Publish America, 279 pages - ISBN: 1-4137-1925-2. Available through www.publishamerica.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, and for order through many other most booksellers (bricks and mortar, and Internet).


Cold Warfare II: Political Terror
©2008 By Patrick Pacalo

Synopsis of Volume II: From an early age, growing up during the Vietnam Era in the Washington DC metro area, the author was affected by the terrorism of the day (a bit different in some ways than the terrorism of today). Friends, associates, and neighbors were impacted in one way or another (no kidding?). One neighbor was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon years prior to the Iran hostage crisis, and 9/11/01.

In this volume Patrick Pacalo, PhD put the skills learned as a student of political science and history; a Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) intern; and as an intelligence officer in the US Army Reserve during Desert Storm to work (whew! Was I busy there for a while).

According to CIA analysis in 1981 "without indirect Soviet assistance many terrorist groups would find their operations severely hampered." There existed Soviet state directed terrorism and quasi-independent terrorist groups. This book represents information and analysis (no, I am not looking for a slot on FOX News, but hey Bill, I will consider offers). The reader is free to reflect and decide if the winding down of some terrorist groups, as the Soviet state disintegrated, was coincidental.

Sources for Cold Warfare II include the National Archives, the CIA, the National Security Archive, presidential papers, and the Youngstown State University Library Federal Depository section.

Publish America, 88 pages - ISBN: 1-60672-355-3. Available through www.publishamerica.com or many booksellers (bricks and mortar, and Internet).


A few of the prestigious libraries that list have books in the multi-volume Cold War series, are listed here:
The U.S. Air Force Academy Library; Auburn University; National Defense University; University of Chicago; University of Kansas; National Archives Library; US Army War College; the Fairfax County Public Libraries; Office of Naval Intelligence; USAF Historical Studies Center in Washington, DC; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Murdoch University, Australia; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Pretoria, South Africa.


Eastern Europe: Cold Warfare III - table of contents
Cold Warfare: A Compact History - table of contents
Cold Warfare II: Political Terror - table of contents

Ratings for: Cold Warfare: A Compact History
By Patrick Pacalo PhD CP
PublishAmerica, trade paperback
279 pages, August 2004
ISBN: 1413719252

REVIEW:
Captain R. M. Rausa, Editor of Wings of Gold magazine (3/29/2005)


Rated: five stars -
An "excellent perspective derived from formerly classified CIA and OSS records, presidential papers and records from both the National Archives and the National Security Archive. Pacalo.... provides a well written and detailed look at the genesis of a conflict that has colored the lives of many generations of Americans."

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REVIEW:
Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com
Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B., 2006

"Cold Warfare author Patrick J. Pacalo researched declassified documents from the CIA, OSS, presidential papers, and records from the National Archives and the National Security Archive. These documents shed light on how the United States conducted the long-running “cold” war against the Soviet Union."

"Pacalo provides copious quotes from these declassified documents. His bibliography of books, letters and other sources is extensive, making it a primary bibliographical source on the history of the Cold War that can be used for further extensive research on the conflict. This book belongs in libraries with a Cold War collection; general readers interested in the Cold War would do well to read this book for its important collection of these sources."


Some quotes:

"One miracle at a time Captain"

-- Mr. Scott

"If you study history long enough you will see it change." --Patrick Pacalo "Analyze don't memorize." --Patrick Pacalo "The truth is my addiction, stranger still than fiction...." --Justin Hayward, No More Lies, The Moody Blues "If it be of importance and of use to us to know the principles of the element we breathe, surely it is not of much less importance nor of much less use to comprehend the principles, and endeavour at the improvement of those laws, by which alone we breathe it in security." --Jeremy Bentham, A Fragment on Government "The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the power of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. --George Washington, Farewell Address "America's greatest export... DEMOCRACY! -- Patrick Pacalo "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." --Edward Everett Hale Feel free to contact Dr. Pacalo at: Coldwartrooper@hotmail.com Life Member of the Military Officers Association of America Member of the American Legion Member of the Army and Navy Union Life Member of the Military Order of Foreign Wars Bronze Patron of the US Army Chemical Museum Certified Paralegal (CP) (NALA) This site is: ©2011 Patrick Pacalo Have a great day! PJP

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You might want to visit http://www.nala.org/certification.aspx - CP stands literally for "Certified Paralegal" it is a trademark of the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). Only those individuals having sufficient legal experience and accredited legal education may sit for the exam. When I took the two-day exam there was a %35 pass rate. Today the exam is offered like the GRE and LSAT by computer at various locations, it is surely harder than the GRE. Only those passing the exam may use the designation CP - NALA maintains a list of individuals falsely using the credential. One maintains the designation by completing 50 Continuing Legal Education units (CLE's) every five years. The education required as a prerequisite to take the exam, and to obtain the CLE's can come from a variety of accredited sources.

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