If you want peace, you must prepare for war
(Las Vegas Sun Breaking News)

Scholars have already debated for decades, and will debate for centuries, the role U.S. policies - military, diplomatic, economic - played in bringing the Cold War to endgame and the Soviet Union to extinction. One milestone was Ronald Reagan´s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative proposal, a technological challenge that could not be met by a Soviet economy already buckling under the combined weight of military spending and socialism´s ignorance. But before SDI, there was ...