List of Cold War articles
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thefuture What Will 2050 Look Like?
From China’s population to NATO’s irrelevance, we actually know more about the future of the world’s power dynamics than we might think.
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castropope Why Pope Francis Inspires Raúl Castro to Go to Church
Warming relations between Havana and the Vatican demonstrate a broader trend of reconciliation between the once-hostile ideologies, which has accelerated under social welfare-minded Francis.
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MayJuneExchange The Exchange: Andrei Soldatov and Joe Weisberg Talk Russian Intel
Why do governments bother to spy at all?
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470968844 All’s Fair in Bromance and War
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's snub of Vladimir Putin is only the latest in a rich tradition of Pyongyang's prevarications.
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saigon 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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466189128 cropped Political Animal
Günter Grass believed that it was the duty of writers to engage with the issues of the day.
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klaatu 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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plane 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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RIP edit 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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President Obama Holds End-Of-Year News Conference At The White House 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.
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