Historic submarines are surprisingly similar to those deployed by today's Navy and can provide an unprecedented look into modern combat at sea.

There was a thought that, as the guns fell silent at the close of World War 2, the world might experience a lasting peace. This illusion was shattered fairly quickly, as the Iron Curtain extended into ...

Post-WWII Europe: The nuclear arms race, the Korean War and Soviet movement into Europe. Recall the early days of post-WWII Europe through the nuclear arms race, American paranoia, the Korean War and ...

The outcome had seemed certain for days, but the suspense kept mounting. The tenth, and supposedly final negotiating session between the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union over a nuclear test ban ...

In the years shortly after World War II, the United States military found itself one of if not the dominant force on Earth. Freshly reorganized in 1947, with a new department, new service branches and ...

America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan; By James Graham Wilson; Cornell University Press 336 pp., $32.95 Virtually all were members of what would later be ...

A staff ride offers a unique opportunity for learning. The concept behind it is simple: to study earlier military campaigns by walking the battlefields. Being there – in the place where it happened – ...

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...

The making of a Cold War spy. The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses. Sometimes it can be mostly harmless when ...

"The current questioning of nuclear deterrence implies something other than its withering away. There is no post-nuclear strategy. . . .[T]he nuclear instrument remains the central element in the ...