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The Vietnam War forced a reckoning in the U.S. Army when I served, and the military is undergoing a similar one now.
You should have never started it.” As cameras rolled during an explosive press conference in the Oval Office in February, U.S ...
In this episode of Vikerraadio's "Harri Tiido taustajutud," the focus is on Oliver Moody's perspective on the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea. According to Moody, the Baltic region spent years on ...
This was my first book as I roamed India for a month in ... I was there when Gorbachev ended unilaterally the Soviet military pact called the Warsaw Pact. He ended it and said peace, and the ...
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world. Medea Benjamin and David Swanson explain NATO’s ...
In April 1955, a decade after World War II ended, the world was completely bipolar and divided into two blocs – North Atlantic Treasty Organization (NATO) led by the US and the Warsaw Pact led ...
When Poland was invaded on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of its 3.3 million Jews remained in place, naively hoping for the best. A small and perceptive minority, fearing Nazi atrocities, fled ...
The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Dr Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, recently commended the importance… Sii akhri ...
Tim Marshall analyses the limits of Vladimir Putin's global ambitions from an extract of Prisoners of Geography ...
The Russian Bear will not be content until it finds warm water…,” the geographer George Babcock Cressey wrote in his influential book, The Basis of Soviet ... as other former Warsaw Pact members ...