Brad has a good post on the Freeman Dyson review of Michael Neufeld's new biography of Werner Von Braun. Essentially, Dyson makes the argument that the V-2 was a poor allocation of scarce defense resources:As the summer ended and our armies drove the Germans out...
military doctrine
Andy over at Siberian Lights has a nice little history of the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol. Khalkhin-Gol was the outcome of several years of competition between the Soviet Union and Japan.