While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before ...

Thanks in large part to such initiatives, U.S. efforts to combat proliferation over the last 60 years have succeeded more often than they have failed. Only nine states possess nuclear weapons, and ...

Pilot Viktor Belenko’s defection was a major embarrassment for the Soviet Union—which was subsequently shocked into establishing tighter security and coerced indoctrination programs for their military ...

Estonia lacks fighter aircraft and, along with Latvia and Lithuania, relies on other NATO members, including the UK, to carry out air policing duties.

The United States was a relative newcomer to the world of intelligence gathering by the time the country entered World War II. President George Washington knew the value of intelligence, but ...

World Affairs is a leading journal, printed and published in India. It seeks to provide the much needed Asian and the developing world's perspective on issues of global significance. It stimulates ...

European countries are demanding answers from Beijing after its top diplomat in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet republics, in comments that could undermine China’s efforts to be seen ...

Russia today is like a Potemkin hegemon —- a phantom political power desperate to hide its decline. Once the unchallenged leader of both the South Caucasus and the entire former Soviet Union, Russia ...

Podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan laid out his nightmare vision of a “Soviet Union-style gulag” situation in the United States where people are tried and convicted for refusing to use people’s ...