It should come as no surprise that the Eastern Bloc powers came up with their own aerial counterparts to the A-10. Though the Republic Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, far better known by its unofficial ...

Seeing this as an existential threat, the Soviet Union united the countries under its own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe into a defensive alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. These two ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

The advantages that the Soviet Union might reap from bringing Albania back into the Warsaw Pact are so evident that the matter must have received close study by the Soviet Defense Council and by ...

Shortly before midnight on August 20, more than 200.000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany(Romania and Albania refused to take part) invaded ...

With the supposed goal of “making America great again,” the Trump administration has paradoxically spent weeks gutting ...

The Soviet Union (USSR) wanted to keep control of Eastern Europe to create a buffer zone between itself and Western Europe. The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy.

"NATO now is a purely geopolitical project on colonizing the territory that became unclaimed after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact [Organization] and the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Soviets claim Czechs requested occupation MOSCOW, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - Soviet officials, speaking through the news agency Tass, today explained why Russia and other Warsaw Pact powers had ...