List of Cold War articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon, Every Country Has Its Own ‘Vietnam’
The USSR’s long, costly, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign through the 1980s to prop up the communist government in Kabul against a mujahideen coalition has spurred probably the best-known uses of the metaphor. But for better or worse, scores of other conflicts also have been cast as “Vietnams.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Political Animal
Günter Grass believed that it was the duty of writers to engage with the issues of the day.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Klaatu, Where Are You?
The face-off over Ukraine has killed nuclear cooperation between the United States and Russia. You have permission to begin freaking out.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Things I didn’t know: U.S.-Soviet Cold War shenanigans in Finnish airspace
Two things I learned from one article in the new issue of the Journal of Military History:
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 THE PENTAGONER: The long, slow death of capabilities-based planning
Best Defense guest columnist Sharon Burke decodes the 2015 Defense budget.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Is Wrong: The Sony Hack Is Not ‘Cybervandalism’
Why the United States needs a broad, new strategy to prepare for -- and defend against -- the next generation of online warfare.