While Russia enhances Cold War-era Soviet Union survival measures, nearly 330 American Marines prepare to deploy to Norway in January.

Russian authorities have stepped up nuclear-war survival measures amid a showdown with Washington, dusting off Soviet-era civil-defense plans and upgrading bomb shelters in the biggest cities

Russia and the West have entered a new Cold War that could lead to growing confrontations across the globe, as Vladimir Putin challenges American international hegemony.

On October 19, the Brookings Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence hosted a discussion in context of General Shirreff’s new novel, “War with Russ...

With tensions between Russia and the United States at their highest since the Cold War, there have been alarming signs coming out of Moscow that suggest the country is ready for war. Almost no one believes the Kremlin is actually preparing for a military conflict with the United States. Most...

Russia's cyber campaign against the U.S. is just another form of war

Russian President Vladimir Putin could be prepping for new world war as relations with the United States and other Western countries continue to disintegrate, according to a reported in The New York Post and other media.Putin has reportedly ordered top Russian officials,...

Russian media outlets have asked viewers if they're ready for nuclear war.

Russian media outlets have asked viewers if they're ready for nuclear war.

Bloomberg News reports that "Russian state television is back on a war footing," as tensions over the collapse of the Syrian ceasefire mount.

Russia has warned citizens that a nuclear war with the West could be imminent - sparked by clashes in the Middle East. Officials said on Friday that underground shelters had been built which could house 12 milion people - enough for the entire population of Moscow. Russia has clashed with the Western

China is likely to fall into the same economic trap as Japan did to muddle along with sluggish growth as it hesitates to deal with the overcapacity and...

Conditions seem ripe for a military clash between Washington and Beijing over the South China Sea.

The military of China underwent a restructuring last year in a bid to prepare its military for conflict, the Pentagon said in its latest annual assessment.

NATO officials argued that Moscow was dangerously blurring the line between conventional and nuclear war.

Looking at military exercises shows how something called the security dilemma puts Europe at risk.

War games show NATO’s eastern flank is vulnerable. To deter Moscow, the United States will need to deploy heavy armor on a large scale, a…

Here comes Air-Sea-Swarm Battle?

"To be caught in Thucydides’s Trap...does not mean that war is fated."

Edward Lucas reviews “Putinism” by Walter Laqueur and “Putin’s Russia” edited by Leon Aron.

Here come Moscow's robots.

The 1987 Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles—known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty—was one of the most significant arms-reduction accomplishments of the Cold War era.

Russia had all but disappeared from the international arena in the last couple of weeks, particularly following the July 14 signing of the international de-nuclearization deal reached with Iran. Indeed, as long as the pause in the Ukraine war holds, Moscow’s opinions on international relations attract little attention because its ability to influence key global matters has shrunk to irrelevance. …

On April 21, the Center hosted an event to discuss the new National Interest cover story “Russia and America: Stumbling to War,” by Graham Allison, Director ...

The odds of a war, while remote, are no longer negligible.

Australia, India, Japan and the US are all stepping up wargames in the Indo-Pacific in response to China's sabre rattling over disputed islands in the South and East China Sea.

As the Minsk accord seems to collapse, new military dangers loom.

As America lurches from crisis to crisis, our foreign policy elites can't even agree on our principal adversary

A growing chorus of analysts and policymakers are sounding the alarm. Will the world hear them in time?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has memorably called the breakup of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a tragedy, and that has led many to believe that he is hoping to restore the old USSR as he consolidates control within Russia and projects military power outward into Ukraine and beyond