Arms control experts say the accord led to the destruction of 2,692 U.S. and Soviet missiles by 1991. The Arms Control Assn., a nonpartisan group in Washington, credits the treaty with helping end the Cold War. . . . ..…

These three states form what Gilbert Achcar calls the strategic triad of the post- Cold War period.13 To keep Russia in check, Washington expanded NATO into Soviet bloc, intervened in Bosnian war, and went to war over Kosovo to assert that United States, and not Russia, held hegemony over..…

MILITARY PLANNERS now speak routinely about “Af-Pak,” reducing Pakistan to an appendage to the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, which has now lasted even longer than the Soviet occupation. The likelihood of any withdrawal keeps receding into an ever-distant horizon, and we see Washington..…

Countries like Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, where the United States set up air bases after 9/11, lie in the heart of the former Soviet Union. If you add to this the U.S. involvement in the Caucasus, you see that Washington is trying to set a military vise around the Caspian Basin, which is an..…

-set of Feb for Russia to meet Washington's demands under the pact. Gorbachev, resolved crisis of the 1980s when Soviet Union deployed Europe called SS-20. ..…