Major John L. Plaster’s SOG is a blunt, first-hand account of MACV-SOG’s small-team missions behind enemy lines that makes Hollywood action look fake by comparison because it’s built on real ...

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 ...

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

There are moments in everyone's life when it feels as though everything has come to an end—overwhelmed by pressure, stress, ...

US-led regime change campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are painfully lodged in the modern American memory.

Gessen to discuss the legality of America’s attack on Venezuela, the state of the global order and what “America first” means ...

There are several ways of writing history. The most common way is to follow the chronological order whether writing about a nation or an individual. For the countries under discussion, the starting ...