The Cold War is widely considered to have ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It appeared to mark the end of an era with the fall of the Iron Curtain, the dissolution of the USSR, and ...

Spanning from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the Cold War wasn’t a traditional war that was fought on battlefields. As a high-stakes race between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and their allies, the ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

Cold War firearms shaped modern infantry tactics by pushing combat decision-making down to the squad level. The AK-47 and M16 standardized assault rifle doctrine worldwide by prioritizing reliability ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before resuming again. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of ...

Expert of Eastern European and Russian affairs and Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute Dr. Michael Kimmage joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the "Cold War" contested by ...

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...

The U.S. maintains Cold War weapons in storage for surge capacity, spare parts, allied transfers, and emergency mobilization. F-117 stealth aircraft remain in flyable storage and are occasionally used ...