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The game simulates hypothetical US and Soviet conflicts in West Germany

Share Gen. Crosbie Saint on what may well have been a terrain walk, taken while he was the U.S Army Europe commander right at the end of the Cold War. Credit: U.S. Army The COVID-19 pandemic has accustomed us to living in the virtual world and hearing speculation about the ways in which our actual lives may never resume as before. Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently said he believes “over 50% of business travel and over 30% of days in the office will go away.” Explaining why the pandemic-induced surge in virtual house calls is likely to endure, Harvard’s Dr. Thomas Delbanco con...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. US Air Force F-16, F-15C, and F-15E fighter jets over Kuwaiti oil fires, set by the retreating Iraqi army during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. During the combat phase of the Gulf War in early 1991, the US military quickly demonstrated its superiority on the ground against Iraqi forces. That superiority, and the decisive victory it produced, was due in large part to the quality of a few Cold War-era weapons that the US brought with it to the Middle...

Nukes aren't just for bombers and subs. Here are some unusual ways militaries have also planned to drop the bomb insider@insider.com (Benjamin Brimelow) © Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb detonated on August 6, 1945. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images Throughout the Cold War, the prospect of bombers dropping nuclear bombs and submarines launching nuclear-tipped missiles terrified people around the world. Those were the major delivery methods, but both militaries developed an array of smal...

Summary The international community was gravely unprepared for the conflicts that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia. In particular, it neglected the challenge of Bosnia. Europe alone was not enough to bring peace, and the United States went from disinterested to disruptive and finally to decisive for a credible peace process. Russia in those days was a constructive actor. The war in Bosnia lasted years longer than it should have more because of the divisions between outside powers than because of the divisions within the country and the region itself. The fundamentals of the Dayton Agree...