Following the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad, the balance on the Eastern Front began to shift. Soviet forces combined ...

For Russia, which aims to regain control over former Soviet territories, capturing Ukraine is critically important, as ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it. By Caroline Alexander The Soviet military often used ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central Europe led to the only documented direct combat between American and Soviet forces in history. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what ...

In December 1940, Germany’s high command moved from loose thinking to serious invasion planning against the Soviet Union, convinced the Red Army would collapse quickly under a massive border assault.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The most likely outcome of war would have been short Chinese success, followed by a sharp, destructive Soviet rebuke. Americans tend to remember the Cuban... Here’s ...

The buildup of US naval forces in the Caribbean, boosted by the recent arrival near Latin America of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, has raised speculation that both the United States and ...