Cold War

(Adds graphic) STOCKHOLM, April 29 (Reuters) - Global military expenditure reached its highest level last year since the end of the Cold War, fueled by increased spending in the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies, a leading defence th…

Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar died Sunday at 87. Lugar was known for his lasting non-proliferation work after the Cold War. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Richard Lugar, the former Indiana senator whose work in pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation helped ce…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption President Barack Obama presnted Lugar with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 Republican Richard Lugar, Indiana's longest-serving senator, has died at 87. His non-profit organisation, the Lugar Center, says …

There’s a major new Arma 3 expansion launching on Monday, April 29th, bringing the military sim back to its cold war roots. Impressively large as it looks, Global Mobilization isn’t by Bohemia Interactive, but the first release in their new “Creator DLC” prog…

When the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev came to Paris to tour with the Kirov ballet company in 1961, he was “like a wild animal out of a cage,” says Oleg Ivenko, the 26-year-old Ukrainian dancer and actor who plays Nureyev in the new movie The White Cro…

Task and Purpose Security, Europe Meet the YAK-141. Russian DNA: How the F-35 Was Partly Inspired By This Old Russian Fighter The Yak-141 Freestyle may not technically count as a predecessor to the F-35, but the JSF does seem to have at least some Russian…

There are many Democrats Id gladly vote for just to get rid of Trump, even if I disagree with many or even most of their policies. But I find Bernie not much better, morally speaking, than Trump, and thats to say nothing about his extreme domestic and foreign…

Future spies are the best kind of spies. What they lack in self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, they more than make up for with mind control and scary drones. By crazy random happenstance, those are just two of the tools available in Sigma Th…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that it will move to block China Mobile, the largest telecom company in mainland China, from offering services in the United States. The effort comes at the direction of the White House and still needs…

Trump with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval Office on May 10 Alexander Shcherbak/TASS/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The concept is straight from the Soviet playbook: Plant false information and…