Photos The Cold War

USS John Adams (SSBN-620)alongside a tender, likely 1970's.
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A photograph of the Soviet photographer Vladislav Mikoshi, taken during a business trip to China in 1949.
An fighter of the People's Liberation Army of China with an American submachine gun.
The PLA is under the command of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the CPC. It is legally obliged to follow the principle of civilian control of the military, although in practical terms this principle has been implemented in such a way as to ensure the PLA is under the absolute control of the Communist Party. Itscommander in chief is the Chairman of the Central Military Commission (usually the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China). Since 1949, China has used nine different military strategies, which the PLA calls "strategic guidelines". The most important came in 1956, 1980, and 1993. In times of national emergency, thePeople's Armed Police and the China Militia act as a reserve and support element for the PLAGF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army

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Cold War. West Germany. 1964. Canadian Infantrymen jump from Centurion tanks of the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise’s) Regiment during a training exercise at Hohenfels Training Area, Bavaria.
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BGS (Bundesgrenzshutz) border patrol squad in the mid-1950s, with MG-42 machine gun and 98k rifles. The radio may be a SCR-300, the standard US Army set of this type during WWII. Around 1960, the BGS switched to the FuG 6, a West German system similar to the US Army’s AN/PRC-6 of the Korean and Vietnam wars.

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Cold War. 1980's. South African Defence Force soldiers training with the homegrown 40 mm Milkor MGL (Multiple Grenade Launcher).


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