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Forty years ago tomorrow, on March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev ascended to lead the Soviet Union, beginning a five-and-a-half-year tenure that would transform his...
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Forty years ago tomorrow, on March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev ascended to lead the Soviet Union, beginning a five-and-a-half-year tenure that would transform his...
Article Summary: During World War II, Northrop designed the XP-79 “Flying Ram,” a jet-powered interceptor meant to destroy enemy bombers by ramming through them....
The term “Solarium Project” has been used so frequently in recent years that its original purpose and power have been diluted. Today, it’s often...
If China invades Taiwan tomorrow, it won’t be the first time. More than 300 years ago, a Chinese fleet captured Taiwan. The parallels with...
President Donald Trump has decided that he wants Canada. Along with designs on Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone, Trump has expressed interest in...
President Jimmy Carter has passed at the age of one hundred. The nearly fifty years since the end of his presidency have given us...
Lurkers in the wretched hive of scum and villainy—the Chinas, Russias, and North Koreas of the world—are channeling Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil...
Since the emergence of the modern nation-state and the slow, steady disappearance of its competitors, questions of influence and primacy have preoccupied international politics....
One forlorn regret that gnaws at some policymakers in Washington and Brussels is NATO enlargement and how growing the alliance may have led Vladimir...
A widespread assumption in the foreign affairs community is that Russia would be unable to occupy Ukraine durably even if it won the war....