In the late Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a bold new idea: a lighter, more deployable version of its powerful Motor Rifle Divisions. Tested in 1987 in the Kiev Military District, the Light Motor ...

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 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

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 the summer of 1944, while Allied forces battled across Normandy in Western Europe, an even larger and more devastating offensive was unfolding on the Eastern Front. Operation Bagration, launched by ...

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 Pakistani Air Force (PAF) just bombed several cities in a neighbouring country which was once described by much stronger forces as a place where there were only rocks and mountains. The Soviet ...