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How the Soviets blitzed Japan in WW2

In August 1945, the Soviet Union launched a massive and largely forgotten offensive into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Known ...
Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous examples of persecution.
Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.
After the catastrophe at Stalingrad, the Red Army surged west with unstoppable momentum. German units froze, starved, and ...
The tragedy in Gaza lays bare the contradictions of a world order built to manage power, not deliver justice or enforce its ...
The release of the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy has brought into focus a fundamental tension that has been simmering ...
During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described ...
New Delhi, Nov 29 (UNI) India has been re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), London, comprising 10 countries with the largest interest in international seaborne ...
More money and industry innovation could help the Navy mitigate its challenges. But they don’t tackle the root cause of a ...
• A fast-moving winter storm dumped several inches of snow across parts of the Midwest where it killed one driver, caused hundreds of crashes and slowed travel to a crawl. It delivered the first ...