Ahalf year into the Russo-Ukrainian war, two dueling interpretations of what’s happening on the ground increasingly shape Western views of the conflict. The first narrative—and seemingly the more-dominant one—is that the Russians are slowly but...
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Think it was a decade of sex, protest and psychedelics? Nope. As late as 1964, the decade looked like the ’50sLate 1964 was a buoyant time for the majority of Americans: a prosperous year that promoted extraordinarily high expectations about the future. As in the previous twenty...
If you want to understand the Ukrainian way of war, you could do worse than to pick up, as I recently did, a 1954 book called “Strategy” by the influential British military thinker Basil Liddell Hart. Having been gassed during the 1916 Battle of the Somme, where much of his battalion was...
Tajikistan has detained more than 200 citizens from the Gorno-Badakshan autonomous region since protests in May and giving them closed trials, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Defendants are being tried without access to lawyers or being told the evidence against them, the New York...
Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior, likely grew up around the coastal city he would one day rule. The findings are part of three new studies published in the...