Russia relationship has survived, out of shared instincts for sovereignty. It remains one of the world’s most quietly ...

Wall St. Insights NATO was founded in 1949 for the collective self-defense of the Western allied countries against Soviet ...

Since 1949, NATO has been preparing to defend Western Europe from a Russian attack. Until 1989 Russia had massed several hundred thousand troops in East Germany along with several thousand tanks, most ...

Europe vows to boost defense amid Russia’s threat, but national divisions could derail efforts to turn promises into real military power.

Despite widely-publicized tensions with the Trump administration, NATO is an enduring and historic success, argues Arthur I. Cyr.

Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and suffered millions of starvation deaths in the 1930s as the Soviet Government ordered nearly all Ukrainian crops exported, leaving little food for the ...

Venezuelan reform leader Maria Corina Machado represents the movement to overcome Venezuela's economic and political ...

The Barrett M107 ranks among the most powerful sniper rifles in the world, converting .50 BMG cartridges to tactical options ...

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...

Congress created the United States Department of Defense in 1949 as part of a comprehensive effort to modernize the military and adapt to the international order that was taking shape ...