Summary: Formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion, NATO aimed to prevent Western Europe’s military overrun, focusing on maintaining air superiority, open sea communication lines to North ...

Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. - Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” ...

Instead, West Germany was accepted into NATO and armed as part of the alliance. As a direct response, the Warsaw Pact was formed on May 14, 1955. One of the first motions passed was the rearming ...

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing ...

Keir Starmer is under pressure from European leaders to join a £420 billion defence scheme amid threats to Nato by Donald ...

In 1955, the Soviet Union created a counter-alliance called the Warsaw Pact, made up of communist countries. Nato and the Warsaw Pact had opposing political beliefs, which fed into the Cold War ...

Russian prime minister has threatened to pull Slovakia from the EU and NATO, arguing such alliances could soon only exist in ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

As President Trump looks to fix the issues that irk him the most, the issue of NATO defense spending — one of his perennial ...

BRATISLAVA - Slovak political scientists have warned of a dangerous shift in public discourse after Smer MP Tibor Gašpar ...