This week the UK's military warned that the threats faced by Britain are greater than at any time since the Cold War - it comes as all five of its Astute class submarines are stuck in port and unable to sail
Against a red background, a soldier with a black beret is seated, with an image of a dolphin behind him, and there are circles emanating from around his face.
"If there was absolutely nothing wrong with this extraordinary donation, why was it apparently treated with such secrecy that only four people supposedly knew about it?"
In the second part of this story, we cover the day Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander M. Zuyev defected in a MiG-29 fighter after executing a brilliant and bold plan in 1989, landing at a coastal airport in Turkey. This article is the second of a two-part story covering the prepararations and then the defection […]
In 1989 Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander M. Zuyev defected in a MiG-29 fighter after executing a brilliant and bold plan, shocking the Soviet Union’s communist rulers and handing the West an advanced combat aircraft. This article is the first of a two-part story covering the prepararations and then the defection of Alexander Zuyev. Stay […]
(The Conversation) — As birth control became increasingly accepted, some supporters’ views were based in religious beliefs about what motherhood should look like.
The US Vice President did not join in with members of Congress who applauded the British monarch for his comments regarding 'the defence of Ukraine' in his address to Congress.
Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, and Henry Kissinger.
Cabrita was chosen from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants for the Class of 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.
The post Q&A: Guggenheim fellow Joel Cabrita digs into the CIA’s role in apartheid South Africa appeared first on The Stanford Daily.
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Late in the day on Friday, February 21, 1947, British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel arrived at the old State Department building just west of the White House, and asked to see Secretary of State George C. Marshall. General Marshall—freshly returned from a year attempting to mollify both sides of China’s civil war—had already gone home. This key architect of the postwar order assiduously followed…
"For 206 days, submariners vanish beneath the waves, cut off from family, sunlight and the world they protect. They miss births, deaths, milestones - living in cramped steel corridors with one constant responsibility"
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I’d vaguely heard of Project Plowshare but good god, what a ridiculous and dangerous waste of time and money.
At the height of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were seen not only as devices of destruction, but also as tools for progress. Project Plowshare was a bold attempt to use atomic explosions for more practical purposes: from digging canals and creating harbors to reshaping entire…
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On Monday, Angel Studios debuted the first trailer for Brink of War, a historical drama starring Jeff Daniels as Ronald Reagan. Unlike 2024’s Reagan, which offered a broad overview of the actor-turned-president’s life, this film focuses on a single pivotal moment in history.
The post Angel Studios Debuts Jeff Daniels As Ronald Reagan In ‘The Brink of War’ appeared first on That Park Place.
A historical war book which dates back to World War One could be revived in order to prepare Brits for conflict, including instructions on how to ration and clear hospitals
The document, which was called "Government War Book", is set to be updated to encourage people to think differently about resilience, drawing on lessons from the Cold War
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Winston Churchill titled the fourth volume of his history of the Second World War The Hinge of Fate because it covered a time period in 1942-43 when events and decisions created a turning point in the war. Looking back 80 years ago, it is arguable that 1946 was the hinge of fate for the post-World War II world. Events and decisions of that year set the course for the Cold War and, ultimately, the…
Donald Trump is not Harry Truman, 2026 is not 1945 and Iran is emphatically not Japan
Both the White House and Israel wanted swift regime change in Iran. Instead they’ve triggered a spiraling conflict with no plausible endgame.
Iran was never on the brink of starting a war. Now Washington and Tel Aviv have manufactured a crisis they can’t control. (Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)
The US-Israeli war against Iran, launched without any coherently stated goals or popular…
For decades in Miami’s Cuban exile community, one word carried the weight of betrayal: dialogue. To suggest that the United States should talk to the Cuban government was not merely controversial. It could be socially ruinous, politically toxic, and at times physically dangerous. Those who dared advocate engagement were branded dialogueros — collaborators with the […]
By invoking the nickname that once defined his political humiliation, Gustavo Arellano did more than mock Marco Rubio in his recent column in the Los Angeles Times. He exposed a deeper truth about power, identity, and political opportunism in the age of Donald Trump. The moment that triggered Arellano’s commentary was almost absurd in its […]
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For many younger Americans, this is the first U.S. war in the Middle East. Here’s how we got here.
The post A Brief History of America’s Involvement in Iran appeared first on The American Prospect.
'While opposition parties seek to undermine Britain on the world stage, my Labour government is focused on protecting people at home', the PM writes for The Sunday Mirror
Music critic Mark Beaumont thinks Harry Styles' much-anticipated new album is full of lacklustre delivery, derivative sounds - and shortchanges his fans
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores a longer history: decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.
A street fair during Somali Week in Minneapolis, 2016. Image credit Fibonacci Blue via Flickr CC BY 2.0.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somali refugees, immigrants, and US citizens of Somali descent…
The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, creates uncertainty for all Iranians, but especially for non-Muslim minorities.
Pete Peters' son feared his father would have no mourners. But after public appeals, people came out in droves to honour the last hero of Operation Bagpipes
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