Question: Are there other languages learned in the nation who were adversaries of the Soviets during the Cold War as popular as who has the oldest navy in the world?

the cold war saw periods of both heightened tension and relative calm. international crises arose, such as the berlin blockade (1948–1949), the korean war (1950–1953), the berlin crisis of 1961, the vietnam war (1959–1975), the cuban missile crisis (1962), the soviet war in afghanistan (1979–1989) and nato exercises in november 1983. there were also periods of reduced tension as both sides sought détente. direct military attacks on adversaries were deterred by the potential for mutual assured destruction using deliverable nuclear weapons. in the cold war era, the generation of love and the rise of computers changed society in very different, complex ways, including higher social and local mobility. <SEP> Moving to reduce Italian influence, in October 1970 all Italian-owned assets were expropriated and the 12,000-strong Italian community expelled from Libya alongside a smaller number of Jews. The day became a national holiday. Aiming to reduce NATO power in the Mediterranean, in 1971 Libya requested that Malta cease to allow NATO to use its land for a military base, in turn offering them foreign aid. Compromising, Malta's government continued allowing NATO use of the island, but only on the condition that they would not use it for launching attacks on Arab territory. The commercial relationship with the latter led to an increasingly strained relationship with the U.S., who were then engaged in the Cold War with the Soviets. Orchestrating a military build-up, the RCC began purchasing weapons from France and the Soviet Union. <SEP> Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language in American secondary schools and of higher education. More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses in autumn of 2002 and Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and universities with 53 percent of the total number of people enrolled, followed by French (14.4%), German (7.1%), Italian (4.5%), American Sign language (4.3%), Japanese (3.7%), and Chinese (2.4%) although the totals remain relatively small in relation to the total U.S population. <SEP> The British Royal Marines combine being both a ship - based force and also being specially trained in commando - style operations and tactics, operating in some cases separately from the rest of the Royal Navy. The Royal Marines also have their own special forces unit. The Spanish Infantería de Marina was formed in 1537, making it the oldest, current marine force in the world. <SEP> when estonia was invaded and occupied by the soviet union in world war ii, the status of the estonian language changed to the first of two official languages (russian being the other one). as with latvia many immigrants entered estonia under soviet encouragement. in the second half of the 1970s, the pressure of bilingualism (for estonians) intensified, resulting in widespread knowledge of russian throughout the country. the russian language was termed as ‘the language of friendship of nations’ and was taught to estonian children, sometimes as early as in kindergarten. although teaching estonian to non-estonians in schools was compulsory, in practice learning the language was often considered unnecessary.