In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

When World War II ended in 1945, the international system was fundamentally transformed. Six years of total war devastated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why was Stalingrad important? The initial objectives were the destruction of the industrial capacity of the city and to ...

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