Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare
Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare Kwajalein Atoll is about as far west of Hawaii as Los Angeles is its east Iknew Kwajalein was going to be a very different [...]
NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain
Tunnel Entrance to the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex NORAD tunnel to Command Complex My following visit to Cheyenne Mountain and NORAD’s Headquarters wasn’t just interesting and useful. It turned out to be [...]
Huntsville, Alabama, and the Army Missile Command
Huntsville, Alabama and the Army Missile Command The Redstone Arsenal and the Safeguard Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) System Stanley Mickelson Safeguard Perimeter Radar (PAR) As I thought about what it would take to [...]
The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
Mickelson Safeguard Anti-ballistic Missile Base, Nekoma, North Dakota Initial Safeguard deployment plan Though large antiwar demonstrations and racial disturbances were a common part of the American scene when I was in the [...]
The Blue U and CIA Training
The Blue U (aka The Blue Goose) North Glebe Road (Virginia Route 120) and Fairfax Drive ( Route 237) Arlington, VA 2015 The Blue U (aka the Blue Goose) being demolished In [...]
The Army Operations Center (AOC)
1969 Richard Nixon Counter-Inauguration Protest The 1967 emergency deployment to Detroit had caught the Army by surprise, and Secretary Vance had also recommended that a new war room in the Pentagon be built to coordinate up to [...]
Bernardine Dohrn-The SDS Revolutionaries Then and Now
Bernardine Dohrn Attends the Class of 1967's 55th Reunion of the University of Chicago Law School Bernardine Dohrn Takes Questions from her Law School Classmates in 2022 Family Ties Prove Bill Ayers' Point 1968 [...]
Directorate of Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations
1972 Army Civil Disturbance Field Manual One of Vance’s recommendations after Regular Army troops had been sent to quell the extreme violence in Detroit in 1967 was to create a joint service command unit [...]
The Vance Report
1967 Federal troops during the Detroit riots Following the Detroit riot, former Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance (then serving as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Concerning the Detroit Riots) prepared [...]
