Commentary When Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” was being filmed in 1945, just as World War II was closing and a few years before the Cold War was heating up, the FBI investigated it for its supposed anti-capitalist themes.

Desperate for a return to normal life, such as was possible, the Cold War began immediately in the new nuclear age when our former allies in war became the new dreaded foe. Yes, another war—but this one with even higher stakes.

The country hasn't assembled submarines domestically since before the Cold War and has never designed its own. Nor has the federal government sent signals publicly if building them at home is something it would seriously want to pursue.

Compared to the Cold War era and the U.S. relationship with the Soviet Union, Moolenaar noted, “we were never intertwined economically the way we are with China.”

A total of 24 prisoners have been exchanged as a result of negotiations between eight countries, including Turkey who acted as the mediator in what has been described as the largest prisoner swap between East and West since the cold war.

The Soviets maintained a reduced presence in Cuba for the rest of the Cold War, including an intelligence collection station at Lourdes, outside of Havana, and occasional naval and air visits, while the United States maintained a robust overwatch of Cuba

The move to a new global cold war structure—Cold War II—began when successive U.S. and allied governments began re-isolating Russia in some simplistically based reflection of Cold War I.

The result of this miniature Cold War is a mix of slapstick, satire, and earthy wisdom regarding the human condition. Guareschi wrote well over 300 Don Camillo stories, which also remain in print.

The Cold War began in large part with the Korean War, when China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea united against Western powers. Now, the same three players have united, albeit with switched roles.

The Cold War had been a golden era for Western solidarity. What would transpire from here on was more difficult to predict.

The ensuing Cold War hinged on protecting a relatively unarmed Europe from an aggressive nuclear Soviet empire on Europe’s borders.

(Gianluigi Guercia/Pool Photo via AP) During the Cold War, Angola’s Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola government was in the Soviet camp, and the United States backed the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, which fought against

The USS Minnesota joins four Cold War-era Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines in Submarine Squadron 15 in Guam.

The significant changes worsened ideological, geopolitical, and economic conflicts with the United States and many other countries, which many believe would lead to a new cold war. The John L.

It was the first hot war of the Cold War—pitting against each other the political wills of the Soviet Union and America.

The Cold War itself produced multiple examples. But Lai’s case may not fit neatly into that framework.

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As the post-WWII Cold War order recedes, the United States can no longer serve as the worldwide cop on the beat. Instead, Washington should craft a principled but limited foreign policy, rooted in national security.

He called the exercises "Russia’s largest joint naval and air drill since the Cold War." “As the world becomes more dangerous, Alaska continues to be on the frontlines of authoritarian aggression,” Sullivan said in the statement.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson articulated a controversial geographic line that placed the Korean Peninsula on the communist side of the early Cold War conceptual boundary.

Commentary The race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will play a decisive role in the “New Cold War” with China. The United States currently enjoys a multiyear lead in cutting-edge AI technologies.

Hegseth also sought to deescalate by walking away from the language of “containment,” used during the first Cold War against Russia and China alike.

“Witness” was first published by Random House in 1952, at the height of the Cold War. A 50th anniversary edition was published with a new foreword by renowned political author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008).

But now in Cold War 2.0, America currently is at a severe disadvantage.

attempts to unwind the Western victory in the Cold War and reintegrate into Russia by coercion republics, apart from Ukraine, that shall have departed from it, are adequately deterred by reinforcement.

Putin’s Ukraine War, like the Cold War, is waged beneath a nuclear shadow. So far Putin has played by Cold War restraints. Unfortunately, the 21st century has two to three dozen real or potential nuclear-armed combatants.

America's trading partners had long enjoyed using the United States as a dumping ground, exploiting first the Cold War tactic of effectively bribing wavering countries from fraternizing too intimately with the Soviet Union by giving them access to the

Indeed, if we reflect on the fact that we moved from an intensely dangerous Cold War (1945–1990) to a more pervasive form of “total war,” entering every phase of human life from, say, 1990 until today, we have to view the global society as one that has

He set the scene by describing a trend since the end of the Cold War—that the United States has moved away from advancing its own national interests to instead serve a “liberal world order.”