The joint Belarusian-Russian strategic military exercise Zapad 2017 may have generated more international interest than any previous Russian exercise since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The context included the marked deterioration of Russian relations with the North Atlantic Treaty ...
In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin committed crimes against humanity by purposely starving to death more than four million Ukrainians for resisting his Five-Year Plan to collectivize agriculture. Millions more fled and in 1937, Stalin executed or imprisoned hundreds of thousands of ...
White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (R) looks on with other cabinet members, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (2ndR); National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster (C) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during a bilateral meeting between US ...
The world has entered a period of uncertainty. The Western countries, preoccupied with domestic challenges, have ceased to be the only center for international initiative. India and China are gaining in strength, and the geography of international trade is changing. ...
Obama wanted a legacy of withdrawal. Instead, he’ll leave a legacy of continuing war. Paul J. Saunders When President Barack Obama acknowledged in September 2014 that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the ...