WWII

After the wreckage of World War II, a new form of global community had huge momentum—but the United States rejected it.

Seventy-five years after Japan surrendered in World War II and scrapped its armed forces, the Trump administration is redoubling efforts to get Tokyo to be more aggressive in countering China.

For decades, U.S. foreign policy has been badly distorted by the way that World War II ended.

By treating Iraqi territory as a neutral zone, Washington and Tehran can avoid conflict.

The Russian president’s amateur history lessons are outraging neighboring countries. While he is right to criticize a recent EU Parliament resolution, his historical revisionism doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

Breaking up monopolies was the first step in fighting Hitler.

In the middle of World War II, Tehran became a haven for both Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees who were welcomed as they arrived from Soviet Central Asia.

Chaos worsens in Sudan, Theresa May exits No. 10 Downing St., and the United States marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

The last survivors of the Normandy invasion—and history's worst war—are almost gone. How long will the international system they helped create survive them?

Seventy-five years after D-Day, the United States should remember that on-the-ground leadership still works.

Japan's legal excuses over slave labor are weak at best.

Rafi Eitan was no 007. He was far more cunning.

The country doesn’t need an openly pro-Russian political party. Its own government’s attempts to rewrite Polish history play directly into Vladimir Putin’s hands.

Populists like to blame elites, but from Israel to Britain to the United States their crusade against hardworking civil servants is undermining the foundations of democracy.

Some of Foreign Policy’s favorite reads of the year.

By deliberately destroying and degrading public health infrastructure, the Syrian regime is reviving long-eradicated diseases and killing civilians.

The best improvisation requires prep work.

A new wave of historical dramas is telling the wrong stories about the country’s past.

China has ramped up its investment in developing quantum technologies, but few understand the impacts of losing this modern-day space race.

Band of Brothers is a miniseries about the exploits of the soldiers of E Company, 2/506 PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) from their initial training until the end of World War II in Europe.