KYIV — Starting in May or June, we may see negotiations for a Ukraine-Russia peace agreement that appear genuine. But everything happening before mid-to-late April will likely be mere consultations ...

Days after Hiroshima, Stalin declared war on Japan. In Manchuria, the Red Army unleashed one of the fastest offensives in history, annihilating Japan’s Kwantung Army. This episode follows the Soviet ...

Tsushima helped a rising Asian power consolidate its regional standing, set that power on the path to destruction in World War II, and fired anti-imperial passions the world over. The U.S. Navy can ...

The fact that Japan is a neighbor of Russia is often overlooked, especially in the West. In fact, Japan has had no land border with Russia for 79 years. But Japan has always faced Russia across the ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...