In the wake of the Cold War, there was a sense that warfare might shift toward smaller joint operations of all forces, known ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

At higher echelons, battalion and division-level comparisons reveal contrasts in logistics, unit composition, and strategic deployment. West German battalions typically included substantial staff and ...

A group of NATO navies are conducting “Operation Ice Camp Boarfish” in the Arctic Ocean—even as a war rages thousands of miles away in Iran.

In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

Just as every generation thinks it’s the first to discover sex, every new generation of military planners seems to think it’s ...

"The circumstances of the incident are under investigation,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Friday. "However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire o ...

The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, ...

For decades, technological innovation has been one of the defining strengths of the U.

The deployment of about 2,500 Marines to the Middle East represents a new phase in the two-week-old war in Iran, as Iranian ...

The US is likely to use RAF Fairford as one of its bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites, the BBC ...

Generations of lawmakers, straying from the Founders’ ideals—and fears—led inevitably to this era of unaccountable ...