The United States may well be at the cusp of a decades-long struggle for military advantage with China, a struggle that hopefully will remain as cold as the late twentieth century struggle against the ...

MOSCOW — The drug at the center of Maria Sharapova’s doping case, regularly given to Soviet troops in the 1980s to boost their stamina while fighting in Afghanistan, is normally prescribed for medical ...

Numbers of men and quantities of equipment are important indicators of a state's power projection capabilities. The way those men and equipments are structured into fighting forces is also important, ...

Red Army soldiers march on October 17, 1986 in downtown Kabul during a military parade. A Soviet soldier from Uzbekistan who went missing in 1980 while serving in the Red Army during the war in ...

One day in 1985, an eighteen-year-old named Riho Terras turned up at the Soviet armed forces’ large conscript assessment facility in Tallinn, some two hours from his hometown of Kohtla-Järve in ...

After World War II, the Soviet Union stood as a towering superpower, commanding a vast sphere of influence and projecting ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Soviet military combined grandiose vision and global aspiration with a defense-industrial base that had severe limitations. For nearly seven decades, the ...