In the late Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a bold new idea: a lighter, more deployable version of its powerful Motor Rifle Divisions. Tested in 1987 in the Kiev Military District, the Light Motor ...

The World Cup has a long, storied and very well-known history. Most football fans know lots of World Cup tales from before they were born — from Pele’s three triumphs to Dutch Total Football and ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

THE West’s military leaders have long understood that their Soviet counterparts were thinking along lines quite different from postwar Western military thought. This difference was condescendingly put ...

Since war began, Ukraine has asked for modern weapons from the West. Some have arrived, but often, forces have to make do with Soviet-era equipment. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley met a helicopter brigade ...

The Russian leader recalled that the states then "distributed the zones of their influence among themselves and did not interfere with each other" ULAN-UDE, March 14. /TASS/. Modern international ...