When I first ventured into Eastern ... Europe is a muddy question. Some sources categorise it as being the Eastern Bloc; in other words, only including countries that were Communist during the ...

Throughout the Cold War, European militaries were very well-armed and capable of fighting intense conflicts over an extended period. Centuries of warfare on the European continent had conditioned ...

Since the 1989 collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, many in the mostly ethnic ... thankful for Washington’s hostility to Moscow during the Cold War, count themselves as loyal American ...

They hailed from North Korea’s highly disciplined special warfare units, but were badly prepared for drone attacks on the mostly open and flat battlefields in eastern Europe. Thousands have been ...

At the end of the Cold War, President George H.W. Bush managed the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe — sometimes overruling regional leaders in the wider ...

As the first world war ... to the Cold War division of Europe. At Yalta, the “big three” decided on the division of Germany, while Stalin was also offered a sphere of interest in Eastern ...

But it is the eastern flank of Europe ... warning that his Cold War generation was giving way to a new era of leaders where a focus on Europe was not a priority. The point is this: none of the ...

We want the killing to stop, but we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that’s going to have Eastern Europe in conflict ... remake the post-Cold War security ...

This anachronism imposes on the contemporary world a scheme of the two spheres of control, one of which does not actually ...

It began in 1991 at the end of the Cold War ... holds the eastern and southern provinces, most of whose population was heavily Russian before the war. Putin has redrawn the map by force.

It applies the realism doctrine of the Cold War long past its expiration ... to include the former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern and Central Europe, the formerly neutral Sweden and Finland ...