In a new docuseries, director Brian Knappenberger argues that the Cold War, which is generally considered to have ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, continues to this ...

Summary: During the late 1970s under the Carter administration, the Soviet Navy would have played a defensive role in the event of a Cold War conflict, primarily focusing on submarine warfare ...

In his new book, The Twilight Struggle, the historian Hal Brands is the latest to fall back on Cold War thinking. He believes that, just as the Soviet Union once posed an existential threat to the ...

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Cold War firearms shaped modern infantry tactics by pushing combat decision-making down to the squad level. The AK-47 and M16 standardized assault rifle doctrine worldwide by prioritizing reliability ...

The Cold War wasn't actually much of a war at all, as it saw very little actual combat between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two of the world's biggest superpowers, the two were in a nuclear ...

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...