Some time over the weekend of August 12-13 2000, while on a naval exercise inside the Arctic Circle, the Russian…
In the late 1980s, after the failure of his long and costly war against Iran, which had lasted for most…
Although some progress towards detente had been made with the signing in 1963 of the Test Ban Treaty between the…
Now it seems either breathtakingly arrogant or plain mad, but in 1979 global diplomacy had no public voice for, nor…
Since time immemorial Afghanistan has been riven by tribal, ethnic and religious conflict. In its harsh geography, authority expands and…
The protracted and brutal war that laid waste one of Asia’s most ravishingly beautiful countries was a classic example of…
Lying only 300 km (200 mi) from the US mainland, the Caribbean island of Cuba had become an increasingly irritable…
As Fat Man and Little Boy brought World War II to its nuclear end, former colonial powers elbowed their way…
Leningrad was a primary objective of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Its importance as Russia’s second city…
In the months following D-Day in June 1944 the success of the Allies in driving Germany out of France and…