How Venezuela’s aging Soviet-era military stacks up against US forces in the Caribbean

The arrival near Latin America of the US Navy’s “most lethal combat platform” has put the spotlight on a fighting force that ...
Meduza

Mutiny on the Storozhevoy: Historian Alexey Uvarov tells the story of the Soviet naval revolt that inspired ‘The Hunt for Red October’

Fifty years ago, in November 1975, a political officer in the Soviet Union’s Baltic Fleet launched an armed mutiny in hopes ...
HistoryAtWar on MSN

The Soviet Union Crumbles: Hitler's Blitzkrieg and the Collapse of the Red Army

In the summer of 1941, the Soviet war machine disintegrated. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, German panzers sliced through ...
StrategyPage

Information Warfare: Shrinking Russian Soviet Influence

Russian leader Vladimir Putin believes it was a mistake to break up the Soviet Union in 1991 and many Russians agree with him. The fourteen new nations created or revived when the Soviet Union was ...
Time

Soviet Union: Purposeful Budgetry

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...
The National Interest on MSN

Russia Wants to Take Back Second Place in Global Arms Sales

Russia’s foreign military sales have plunged since the onset of the Ukraine War, as materiel destined for export has been ...

Soviet soldiers and chunks of the Wall: NFL's first visit to Berlin came as the Cold War ended

When he saw a group of Soviet soldiers on the street in East Berlin, Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Irv Pankey had an ...