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

American power succeeds only when it enters a conflict with limits, legitimacy, and a political end state already within ...

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 ...

What began as protests against soaring inflation and currency collapse across Iranian cities on December 28 quickly evolved ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

According to CFR’s annual conflict risk assessment, American foreign policy experts are acutely concerned about conflict ...