According to General-Lieutenant Viktor Sevostianov, the commander of air forces in Central Military District, Russia plans to double the number of its... The strategic seismic shockwave unleashed throughout Soviet Union by August military confrontation between Georgia and Russia..…
USSR was forced to protect against the fascists, to protect the revolution that raised the workers and peasants of Russia out of poverty into life, Ilya Ehrenburg's of the resistance of Soviet peoples to Nazi invasion described so well in his novel, The Storm. ..…
Although the story is generally not told this way, on July 26, 1941, one month after Hitler’s Nazi Germany invaded Stalin’s Soviet Russia, FDR’s administration dropped some extra-provocative sanctions on Imperial Japan; “Not one drop of oil for Japan!” ..…
Russia’s intervention in Syria and posturing with respect to Afghanistan highlight another security concern motivating its reemergence as a player: the threat to Russia and its claimed sphere of influence by the presence and participation of Russian-speaking and former Soviet state..…
The Soviet military once operated extensively along its 15,000-mile Arctic coastline. ... After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia shuttered the majority of Arctic operations, and military activity in the region dropped considerably.. ..…