The contours of World War III are visible in the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, India and Pakistan, and now Israel and ...

But Iran’s “blink” offers a third way: the path of strategic dialogue. It means future confrontations, while still possible, ...

Trump could use an advisor like Barbara Tuchman whose 'Guns of August' was crucial to JFK during the Cuban missile crisis.

Whatever one’s position in a conflict, certain actions cannot be justified. Targeting civilians, destroying essential services, blocking aid, using civilian areas for military purposes or punishing en ...

The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with ...

He is one of modern history’s great survivors. In his 38 years in power, Ali Khamenei has murdered, jailed and exiled rivals; ...