Years back in the National Interest, this publication discussed NATO’s plan for World War III in Europe. The scenario, set in the late 1980s, assumed that the forces of the Soviet Union and the rest ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 to oppose Soviet expansionism in Western Europe. The end of the war saw the Soviet Union solidify its gains in Eastern Europe, ...

Only revealed in 2005, the once top-secret "Seven Days to the River Rhine" allegedly exposed the Warsaw Pact's plan to win a nuclear World War III against the NATO powers boarding the Iron Curtain ...

After Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 67, was abruptly removed last September as chief of the Soviet general staff, he was variously reported to be in charge of a military academy or a command in the western ...

On Aug. 21, 2024, we marked the 56th anniversary of the Communist Soviet-lead Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The August attack that is among the sad history of the Cold War. The “Prague ...

The June NATO summit in the Hague achieved great success by reaching a consensus among its members to increase the target of national defense spending to 5 percent of GDP. In addition, the cost of ...

Ever since the final failure of the Soviet Union, American life has been characterized by a strange—and strangely unexamined—contradiction. In our era, the fortunes of the American state seem to ...

The Cold War was a politically tense period during which the United States and the Soviet Union faced off. The Soviet Union eventually fell after being unable to keep pace with American defense ...

The American military strikes against Venezuela, an independent republic, and abducting its President and his wife are ...

Let’s call the Trump administration’s approach to Russia an anachronism. It applies the realism doctrine of the Cold War long past its expiration date. The theory of realism in international relations ...