List of Cold War articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Does It Matter Whether Japan Says Sorry for Its Wartime Behavior?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to give a major speech on Japan’s World War II aggression. But in Tokyo, history is never really about history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Things I didn’t know: U.S.-Soviet Cold War shenanigans in Finnish airspace
Two things I learned from one article in the new issue of the Journal of Military History
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cold War Symbolism: Not Just for the 1950s Anymore
You don't have to be a musty old relic to know that symbolic gestures still have a place in the fight to defend freedom and democracy from Russia.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Will 2050 Look Like?
From China’s population to NATO’s irrelevance, we actually know more about the future of the world’s power dynamics than we might think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Pope Francis Inspires Raúl Castro to Go to Church
Warming relations between Havana and the Vatican demonstrate a broader trend of reconciliation between the once-hostile ideologies, which has accelerated under social welfare-minded Francis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Andrei Soldatov and Joe Weisberg Talk Russian Intel
Why do governments bother to spy at all?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All’s Fair in Bromance and War
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's snub of Vladimir Putin is only the latest in a rich tradition of Pyongyang's prevarications.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 40 Years After the Fall of Saigon, Every Country Has Its Own ‘Vietnam’
The USSR’s long, costly, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign through the 1980s to prop up the communist government in Kabul against a mujahideen coalition has spurred probably the best-known uses of the metaphor. But for better or worse, scores of other conflicts also have been cast as “Vietnams.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Political Animal
Günter Grass believed that it was the duty of writers to engage with the issues of the day.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Klaatu, Where Are You?
The face-off over Ukraine has killed nuclear cooperation between the United States and Russia. You have permission to begin freaking out.