Struggle for the golan

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc

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Operation Spider’s Web, in which dozens of Russian bombers were destroyed with drones, shows Ukraine’s aptitude for blue-sky thinking. It marks an inflection point in warfare

“He came, he bombed, he ended the war.” ...

During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre’s rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders