On Jan. 3, 2026, President Trump authorized an attack on Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro ...

The United States’ plan for dealing with Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China remains ill-defined among a shifting global order.

The M4 Sherman was supposed to disappear after World War II, replaced by newer and more powerful tanks. Instead, it continued fighting across Korea, the Middle East, and beyond, facing Cold War ...

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit. Japanese Prime Minister ...

Many of the tactics used by modern militaries were forged long before today’s conflicts ever began. During the Cold War, ...

President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested since 2017. By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad David ...

For the past few years, I have had to ask myself a question I never asked before in my life: What should we call the era we’re living in today? I was born into the “Cold War” era, and most of my ...