In the late Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a bold new idea: a lighter, more deployable version of its powerful Motor ...

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 ...

Samusenko was a woman who defied conventional gender norms and societal expectations to fight for her country during one of ...

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 ...

The Yak-9’s wooden airframe design represents a true engineering marvel—considering that this plane was being deployed against some of Hitler’s most advanced military technology on the Eastern Front.

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 ...

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 ...