At higher echelons, battalion and division-level comparisons reveal contrasts in logistics, unit composition, and strategic ...

The biggest issue in the cold war is Germany—whether to rearm it, how to unite it. For a month or more, Western diplomacy had been becalmed by inertia and irresolution, while the loosening lines of ...

Berlin was still taut. Refugees from East Germany continued their desperate attempts to scale the Wall and sprint to freedom. Shots were fired from both sides of the border. At the highest levels of ...

The Cold War produced a wide range of unconventional military ideas as rival powers sought strategic advantages. Among the more unusual concepts were programs exploring how animals might assist ...

The LSE Cold War Podcast tackles the big questions around the conflict that made our contemporary world: The Cold War. Every fortnight, Jack Basu-Mellish interviews scholars from LSE, a leading global ...