Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s gutting of U.S.A.I.D. will weaken Washington’s reach, but America was already losing the fight ...

China has a hit out at “Cold War mentality” by the United States in Latin America, saying it had complained over comments by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a visit to the region.

Built for speed, the MiG-25 Foxbat became one of the Cold War’s most feared interceptors. With a top speed over Mach 3 and ...

Unless the situation in Pakistan poses a threat to American interests, US-Pakistan intelligence-sharing and counter-terrorism ...

A longstanding Sinophobia in the U.S. goes back to the 19th century, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, the tax on Chinese miners during the Gold Rush, and ...

The diffusion of technology means U.S. military superiority must come not just from the weapons it has, but from how it uses ...

"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.

A Cold War-era naval vessel is slowly sinking in the Ohio River, and no one seems to know what to do with it. The YP-575’s ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his second term defies many historical norms, say economists and historians.