History offers Ukraine slender hope for a decisive victory
The wars between Finland and Soviet Russia in the 1940s hold lessons on how peace might be achieved today.
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Russia’s war on the future
Unable to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is targeting the next generation.
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George Kennan, loser
The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.
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The West can no longer make war
Defence planners in Washington dream of a conflict with China – it’s not one the US can fight.
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What happens if the Russian state collapses?
The West yearns for Vladimir Putin to fall – yet this could trigger mayhem in Russia, and instability throughout Europe.
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The fake tsar
The truth is out there: there is no Russian state.
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The Kakhovka dam attack is just the beginning
As Kyiv launches its counter-offensive, both sides are escalating.
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The month of two D-Days
History will record this deed as an achievement of the highest order.
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Ukraine reveals the rise of the non-aligned state
Zelensky left the G7 to a chorus of renewed Western support, but failed to convince the other leaders to choose…
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Brain surgery in a warzone
For Ukrainians, victory is inevitable – but in the country’s hospitals, it is clear that winning the war will come…
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Soldiers in love
Men at War, Luke Turner’s tender account of servicemen’s transgressive private lives, transforms our understanding of the Second World War.
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Putin digs in for a forever war
New conscription rules signal that the Kremlin has no intention to give up on its war effort.
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The meaning of the battle for Bakhmut
Without taking the city Vladimir Putin cannot achieve his war aims.
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The history of the American South is as contested as ever
In the home of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement, the past is never dead.
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Artwork from a nation under attack
Whether sketching in bomb shelters or escaping the capital with unruly pets, Ukrainian illustrators and artists bear witness to the…
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Oleksiy Danilov: “Weak people always come up with excuses not to act”
Ukraine’s national security adviser on German betrayal, the coming Russian onslaught and why the West is scared.
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Germany has become the roadblock at the heart of Europe
Berlin is consciously and deliberately stalling on sending Kyiv battle tanks.
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What we know about the helicopter crash that killed three Ukrainian officials
They are the first senior government figures to be killed or injured since Russia’s brutal invasion began.
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From the NS archive: Back to all that
11 January 1958: Robert Graves and the writing of the two world wars.
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What politicians get wrong about war
From Kosovo to Ukraine, Lawrence Freedman’s book Command explores the catastrophes that occur when state and military strategy collide.
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