Sinking of Russian Sub Kursk Kicked Off Renewed US Inter-Service Rivalry

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Director Keith Hall’s decision in August 2000 to have its officers wear a shoulder patch, portraying its covert role in most threatening terms, was not dictated by any kind of gloating over its efforts but by simple inter-service rivalry.

The Air Force agency had long been locked in competition with its closest US Navy rivals, its boomers and attack submarines, in cutting down America’s real and potential enemies to size since all-out nuclear war seemed unthinkable, now that the official Cold War was over.

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Raising the ghost of the Kursk

On the tenth anniversary of the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, BBC Russian correspondent Oleg Boldyrev visited relatives of the crew who remain frustrated by unanswered questions

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