WASHINGTON -- In his 1949 speech at the Washington signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, U.S. President Harry S. Truman set the tone with simple words and a straightforward message. "For us, war is ...

KUCOVE, AlbaniaKUCOVE, Albania — NATO member Albania on Monday inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base, the alliance’s first in the Western Balkan region. The air base is named after the small ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union built the massive Oscar-class submarine for one purpose - destroying American aircraft carrier groups. These submarines carried up to 24 supersonic anti-ship ...

2002-08-31 04:00:00 PDT Vilnius, Lithuania-- As NATO prepares for a historic meeting this fall to consider greatly expanding its membership, NATO fever is gripping the countries knocking on its door.

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. The Soviet Union, and later Russia, expressed readiness to join NATO but realized they weren’t welcome there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his combined ...

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VILNIUS, LithuaniaVILNIUS, Lithuania — Several central and Eastern European countries began marking on Thursday the 20th anniversary of the largest expansion of the NATO military alliance when ...

WILL CAIN: Why is it that everything in our world has to be turned into a catchphrase, a slogan? Why does all critical thinking have to be totally dropped and we all have to sing together in unison, I ...