WWII

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.

I am now 91 years of age and it has been 70 long, wide years since I returned home on Christmas Eve, 1945.

Seventy years after George Marshall’s famous speech built the modern foundation of the transatlantic alliance, Donald Trump seems determined to tear it apart.

This is an excerpt from my new book, 'Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.'

Including a new Arctic air defense system.

The new president has sounded an unprecedented retreat for the United States from its role as a world leader.

In the age of Trump, literature can sustain those searching for the courage to resist the politics of division.

I’d been taught that “blitzkrieg” was a pseudo-German term invented by the Anglo-American press to describe the emerging Nazi way of war.