The 65-mile border that separates Lithuania and Poland has become NATO's biggest nightmare, and a potential Russian lifeline.

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 ...

From Poland’s land forces to Ukraine’s impressive military improvements over the last few years, the military forces of ...

Russia is aiming to revive Soviet-era propaganda about the threat of a "nuclear winter" to instill fear into the Western ...

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 ...

Russia primarily uses nuclear threats to deter Western countries from supporting Ukraine and plans to revive the Soviet ...

In response to West Germany joining NATO, the Soviet Union set up the Warsaw Pact in May 1955.The Warsaw Pact had eight founder members: the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia ...

Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

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

Summary: Formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion, NATO aimed to prevent Western Europe’s military overrun, focusing on maintaining air superiority, open sea communication lines to North ...