When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

Poland is stepping up defenses with the Baltic states ahead of possible Russian aggression as the war with Ukraine ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Vance created a brand-new stereotype for America: not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American.

Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

The siege of Budapest, one of World War II’s longest urban battles, saw relentless street combat and left the city in ruins.

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

Europe’s defense unity is fractured as Trump’s stance revives Cold War divisions, with Eastern Europe fearing Russia.

Vladimir Putin’s Russia vowed to inflict ‘maximum defeat on the ground’ for Ukraine as it unleashed a huge attack with 181 drones and four missiles. Former president Dmitry Medvedev also claimed ...