Foreign aid has been dismissed as soft-hearted waste, but it has always been used to build American influence and security.

This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and ...

In the event of a peace settlement dividing Ukraine in two, the nations of the West have a critical interest in strengthening ...

Norway has reactivated two military bunkers north of the Arctic Circle that were last used during the Cold War. In Italy ... to a recent YouGov poll in Germany, more than half of respondents ...

Poland is planning to train every adult male for war, Norway is restoring old military bunkers, and Germany has unlocked ... in a practice halted in 1998. And Cold War military bunkers, sitting ...

beaming German language broadcasts into Nazi Germany to counter Hitler's propaganda machine. Voice of America expanded during the Cold War in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China in an ...

Even though it's 80 years since World War Two ended ... service is "absolutely" necessary. Germany had conscription for all men until 2011 "You won't get this 100,000 without one or other model ...

It's not about peacetime and war, it's a continuum: let's start with hybrid, then escalate, then back. This is what makes me think we are facing a real threat." He argues Germany has to act fast.

Even though it's 80 years since World War Two ended ... Image caption, Germany had conscription for all men until 2011 "You won't get this 100,000 without one or other model of conscription ...