Soviet Navy's 60-Day Clock in the Norwegian Sea
An August 1976 assessment kept secret for four decades exposes a global fleet that could not refuel under fire, leaving Soviet warships stranded once their initial stores ran dry.
By Roy Castellano ·
Logistics
State Governors and the Secret Logistics of the US Military
For decades, a paper trail of 'motor carrier safety' hid a direct line between the White House and the Pentagon that bypassed the Department of Defense to move assets through state corridors.
By Harlan Pryce ·
6,000 Ships and the 1979 Atlantic Resupply Gap
A memorandum kept secret for 38 years exposes a bitter dispute over how many merchant vessels the Soviet Navy could sink—and how many the US actually had.
By Vera Kessler ·
55,740 Tons and the Polish Theater Target List
A redacted codeword and 15 months of silence hid the precise locations of Warsaw Pact fuel reserves in Poland, blueprints for a strike that would have paralyzed an entire army.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Traffic Division and the 1940s Game of Strategic Routing
For decades, the mundane ledger of how the US fed and armed the Allies stayed hidden behind bureaucratic jargon; the records now show who controlled the flow of survival.
By Desmond Okafor ·
New York Port of Embarkation and the Redacted Cargo of World War II
Thousands of troops and millions of tons of gear moved through the Atlantic under orders kept secret for decades, leaving a gap where the strategic intent of the War Department should be.
By Desmond Okafor ·
US and Canadian troops fought -50 degree cold to block Soviet Arctic access
A 336-page report from 1946 details the brutal cost of pushing men and machines 3,200 miles across the barren grounds to secure a frontier once ignored by the military.
By Vera Kessler ·