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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

“He came, he bombed, he ended the war” – or so Donald Trump wants the world to believe, says The Economist. Two days after US bombers struck Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump announced a ceasefire in

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

When Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs on 15 September 1940, it brought the war to the very front door of King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, the Queen consort. Just over two weeks later, the war

This fantastic plan, which led the then Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS), Air Vice-Marshal Arthur T Harris, to remark ‘the story, that appears too fantastic for words, might have a fortunate outco