This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 153. In September 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the 'Department of War', reverting ...

President Trump and his defense secretary say they want to return to the era when America won wars. They largely ignore the greatest accomplishment of the past 80 years: avoiding superpower conflict. ...

A man carries an elderly woman as people continue to leave Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (Vadim Ghirda / AP Photo) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...

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On The Cambridge History of War, Volume III, edited by David Parrott & Gábor Ágoston. The third of a four-part series, the Cambridge History of War’s most recent volume is an expensive edition that ...

When the nascent naval power invaded Puerto Rico, three artists captured the moment, each explaining its significance in their own way Taína Caragol | Curator, National Portrait Gallery The summer of ...

Conflicts between France and England were common throughout the early eighteenth century. While previous wars were about succession, or who would take control of what country in Europe, the French and ...

On the evening of February 21, 2022, three days before Russian forces began the largest land invasion on the European continent since World War II, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an angry ...

When Vladimir Putin denies the reality of the Ukrainian state, he is speaking the familiar language of empire. For five hundred years, European conquerors called the societies that they encountered ...