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The Strangest Aircraft Ever Built The Soviet Union's VVA-14
Hidden in a Moscow air museum, the Soviet VVA-14 is one of the weirdest aircraft ever built! Designed to hover, take off ...
The US looks south: National security challenges loom close to home
The porous border is arguably the greatest immediate security challenge facing the U.S. Indeed, two decades after 9/11, the ...
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When 39 Soviet Soldiers Took on 250 Afghan Mujahideen...
The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...
Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
Here's why US Iron Dome is necessary, but will differ from Israel's
There are significant challenges to overcome if we are to deploy something similar to Israel’s acclaimed air defense network ...
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...
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As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has ...
DeepSeek Finds US Export Controls at a New ‘Sputnik Moment’
Berkeley Research Group’s Brent Carlson and Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Michael Huneke examine DeepSeek’s implications for how ...
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Ukraine’s Artillery Nightmare is Only Beginning
Whatever shortfalls exist within the Russian war machine, the fact remains that the Russians are adapting to the conflict. Artillery is the “King of Battle” when it comes to ground warfare. This has ...