This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

Playing a long game paid off with the Soviet Union and a similar trajectory of regime collapse could come in Tehran ...

Reflecting on the 35th anniversary of Desert Storm should not be merely commemorative, but rather as a call to relearn how ...

First flying in 1949 the Il-28 Beagle was a twin-engined straight-winged jet bomber powered by the Klimov VK-1 jet engine, an ...

American power succeeds only when it enters a conflict with limits, legitimacy, and a political end state already within reach, and it fails when it tries to invent those conditions at gunpoint.

Since NATO’s 1949 founding, the Soviet Union and then Russia have sought to counter, if not conquer, the alliance. Remarkably ...

Current protests in Iran are reminiscent of the uprising in 1979 that forced the exodus of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and put ...

Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has now lasted longer than the Soviet Union’s fight against Nazi Germany, with incomparably ...

At a time when the field is gaining new vitality abroad, area studies in the U.S. is struggling to survive. Just before ...

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was one of the most stinging U.S. setbacks of the Cold War era. A longtime ally that the United ...

The revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and seized our diplomatic personnel in November 1979. If that wasn't enough of a national embarrassment, a dramatic rescue attempt by the U.S. military in ...

Today in History for Jan. 27: In AD 398, John Chrysostom, the greatest preacher of his age, was consecrated bishop of Constantinople.