Yugoslav dissidents and the cold war

Anglo-Yugoslav medical relations in peace and war.

Although the medical centres of Great Britain, owing to their distance from Yugoslavia,t have influenced Yugoslavian medicine less than those of neighbouring countries such as Italy, Austria, and Hungary, some traces of contact can be found as far back as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But the first real co-operation dates from the end of the nineteenth century, when assistance began...

The new cold war

As researchers for the Defence Research and Development Canada, attending field trials, military exercises and operations for data collection purposes is a common and exciting part of the job. Over the past few years while conducting research during Arctic operations (Figure 1) we have experienced the challenges of trying to conduct basics tasks outside in the extreme cold. As civilian scientis...

During the Cold War

The first in this series Of three articles, published in the September-October 1997 issue of ARMOR. addressed American lank developmenJ during the HbrJd \\brs. This article focuses upon lhe Cold "'b, era prior to the development of the M I Abrams, illustrating the injlutnu oj the Soviet military threat. The desire to field a technologically superior lank that would more than offset Soviet numer...

Deterrence in the Cold War and the “War on Terror”

The psychiatrist and political dissidents.

Healthy dissidence is part of the stuff of politics but when does health break down into ill health and how does that ill health manifest itself? In violence, street riots, anarchism, terrorism, revolution, civil war, or in forms of deviant thought and behavior that may be regarded as manifestations of mental illness? The term dissenter came into being in 1639 to describe individuals who separa...