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Pakistan’s nuclear programme, from its inception in the 1970s, was fundamentally shaped by theft, deception, and systematic proliferation, involving not only individual scientists but also the country ...

In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

He once defied the G.O.P. by blasting military interventions. But what looked like anti-interventionism is really a ...

The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

Trump’s penchant for theatrics and bombast, his obsession with status and his use of power to enrich himself and his family — ...

Bush apparently decided to invade Iraq before he had settled on a specific cause. He wanted to assert American power after ...

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Professor Lisa Brady from the Department of History recently published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of American Military ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize no doubt fueled his decision to launch an unprovoked invasion of Venezuela. But the military strike is more likely to add ...

A onetime adviser to Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney argues that the U.S. has been “too cautious” in its use of force since the ...

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may have heard of Kipling, although it is doubtful that they ...