During the Cold War, the U.S. considered stationing nuclear missiles under the ice sheet in Greenland -- and never told ...

Post-WWII Europe: The nuclear arms race, the Korean War and Soviet movement into Europe. Recall the early days of post-WWII Europe through the nuclear arms race, American paranoia, the Korean War and ...

A staff ride offers a unique opportunity for learning. The concept behind it is simple: to study earlier military campaigns by walking the battlefields. Being there – in the place where it happened – ...

The Cold War wasn't actually much of a war at all, as it saw very little actual combat between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of the world's biggest superpowers, the two were in a nuclear ...

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...

Peace after World War II quickly turned into a race for security and power. Britain and France sought protection from Soviet expansion, drawing the United States into a web of treaties that reshaped ...

A giant and very loud artifact of the Cold War – from the “Duck and Cover” era – disappeared from its perch in a park in North Seattle last month. Now, local history enthusiasts are wondering why it ...

Military necessity has often driven engineers and construction teams to innovate. This was certainly the case when the U.S. military confronted the challenges of building in Arctic environments after ...

The making of a Cold War spy. The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses. Sometimes it can be mostly harmless when ...

With authoritarianism, fanaticism, aggression, and conflict growing alarmingly worldwide, it is clear that America’s post-Cold War foreign policy has been subpar. The response to emerging or ...