CIA agent Blackford Oakes is sent to Cuba to determine military.military_command feasibility of overthrowing Fidel Castro , following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 .

Count Albert VII of Mansfeld-Hinterort ( 1480-1560 ) signed the Protestant Augsburg Confession in 1530 and joined the Schmalkaldic League , a defensive confederation of Protestant princes which ultimately lost the Schmalkaldic War over Saxony to the forces of Emperor Charles V but gained Lutheranism 's recognition as an official religion within the Holy Roman Empire , letting princes determine military.military_command official religion within their lands .

Its contributions during the Thirty Years ' War under Gustavus Adolphus helped determine military.military_command political , as well as the religious , balance of power in Europe .