Cold War

NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps 2020-03-06T18:01:28Z Staff officers from NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps visit British Royal Engineers in Minden, northwestern Germany to learn about amphibious engineering ahead of the Corps’s participation in Exercise Defender Europe 20, February 26, 2020. British Army/Sgt. Alistair Laidlaw NATO officers and British engineers got…

In retrospect, Richard Nixon was certain to win re-election in 1972. The economy was recovering from a recession during his first two years in office, he had wound down the Vietnam War, and his trips to Beijing and Moscow, transforming and defusing the Cold War, were enormously popular. Yet he…

From the Age of Sail through to the Second World War, naval combat was done primarily in close quarters and with cannons. Naturally the technology improved quite a bit in those intervening centuries, but the idea was more or less the same: the ship with the most guns and most…

Mara Hvistendahl is a freelance reporter and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her first book, Unnatural Selection. Her new book is The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage. “In times of tension, Cold War historians believe that there’s this mirroring that…

China Power | East Asia China on Tuesday denounced a move by the Trump administration to cap the number of Chinese state-run media journalists who can work in the United States as “based on the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice.” An online video about U.S.-China trade tensions produced by China’s state…

According to Rep. Jason Crow, Russian President “Vladimir Putin wakes up every morning and goes to bed every night trying to figure out how to destroy American democracy.” But that’s not true. There’s no real reason to believe that Putin means us any harm at all. The new Cold War…

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China wants to use artificial intelligence and 5G technology to “control the world” and undermine human rights, a Heritage Foundation national security analyst said Friday during an annual gathering of conservative activists. U.S. policymakers and industry leaders “need to be honest” about the challenges posed by China and close off…

Pete Buttigieg at the 10th Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on Tuesday. Jim Watson/Getty Images Over the past few months, political commentators have struggled to explain why many LGBTQ people, especially younger cohorts, have not enthusiastically lined up…

The seductive pleasure of elbow-dropping Michael Bloomberg may distract from the urgency of poking holes in the rapidly inflating Bernie Sanders parade balloon. The stage in Charleston, South Carolina, that will be used for Tuesday night’s debate. Logan Cyrus /AFP via Getty Images Here are the current Democratic primary news…