Military spending in Central and Western Europe is now higher than the last year of the Cold War, a new report has found.

Russian threats revive old nuclear fears in central Europe. The Ukraine war has triggered fears across Europe, and these are especially felt in countries like Poland and Romania.

Indeed, Russia’s brazen invasion of Ukraine has shown exactly why this historic alignment has become a hegemonic idea in Central Europe. Many in the region see the tragedy in Ukraine as a ...

Now, European nations are finding it difficult to give up those peacetime benefits, even as the war in Ukraine has revived Cold War-era tensions and the U.S. tries to shift its focus to China.

The post-Cold War era has given way to an uneasy interregnum in which great-power rivalry grows. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia,” President Biden said this past week in Warsaw.

In Europe, the Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted the post-Cold War arrangement that allowed the U.S. military to sharply cut forces from a high of about 400,000 to roughly 65,000 permanently based ...

The decommunization of Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War was not a consequence of Reagan’s military build-up and his starry-eyed Strategic Defense Initiative.