Late last month, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump caused considerable controversy by arguing that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was “obsolete” in dealing with the threat of terrorism ...

U.S. allies are not emerging from the past weeks with greater confidence in their long-standing ties to Washington, nor is Beijing emerging with new trepidation about its own position. If anything, ...

What was the Warsaw Pact? During the Cold War, the USSR founded its own military alliance in response to NATO called the Warsaw Pact. All the Warsaw Pact countries outside the USSR have now joined ...

Key point: It’s possible that in formulating these plans, the Soviets caught a brief glance at the realities of atomic combat—and that may have made them even more determined to avoid all-out war.

Elsewhere, Hungary threatens to send migrants to Brussels; Czech Senate approves postal voting; and Polish government suffers setback in bid to put central bank chief on trial. It is said that the ...

Key point: Both America and the Soviet Union planned for a nuclear World War III. Thankfully such a conflict never happened, but they both were ready to end the world. World War II was the most ...