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Operation Sunday was a United States-led military operation conducted from November 27 to December 3, 1988, against the People's Republic of Sahrani (PRS) alliance forces occupying Costa Rica. The operation involved the largest U.S. amphibious assault since th...

The February Crisis was a successful military coup d'état that occurred in the Soviet Union between February 8-12, 1989, resulting in the removal of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and the installation of a hardline Communist Party leadership under Defense...

Operation Normalizovat (Westernized as, Normalization) refers to the comprehensive campaign of violent suppression conducted by Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces against independence movements across Eastern Europe following the February Crisis of 1989. The operat...

The Central Committee of the February Crisis Government, commonly referred to as the February Committee, comprises the seven-member governing council that assumed control of the Soviet Union following the successful coup d'état against Mikhail Gorbachev in Feb...

Category Strength Availability Initial Assault Forces   336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade 2,400 personnel   - 877th Naval Infantry Battalion     - 878th Naval Infantry Battalion     - 879th Naval Infantry Bat...

Category Strength Availability Immediate Response Forces 6,200 personnel 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines (1st MAR DIV) 900 personnel   - Echo Company     - Fox Company (You!)     - Golf Company     - Weap...

We are in Estonia. Seriously. It should not be that fucking difficult for you morons to have a modicum of a grasp on where we are and what we are doing. I will put you inside of the bad boy chamber if you pull my leg or ask me retarded shit this month like "du...

The Third World War commenced on June 21, 1989, following the formal invocation of NATO Article 5 collective defense provisions in response to systematic Soviet attacks on alliance naval and air forces during the Paldiski incident. The conflict represents the ...

The Incident at Paldiski encompasses the four-day naval confrontation between NATO forces and Soviet Baltic Fleet units from June 18-21, 1989, culminating in formal alliance declarations of hostilities. The crisis originated from Royal Navy humanitarian evacua...

Soviet military abbreviation practices employed standardized Cyrillic designations that Western intelligence services transliterated into Latin characters for operational mapping and order of battle tracking. The abbreviation system distinguished between bas...

Estonian Resistance Factions refers to the three primary partisan organizations conducting organized military and political opposition to Soviet control in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic following the February Crisis of 1989 and subsequent Operation No...