John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...

The U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane —one of the many products of the legendary Lockheed “Skunk Works” division and its resident ...

The United States has revoked all visas issued to South Sudanese passport holders, citing the African nation’s refusal to ...

Frank Wisner’s career in espionage began in World War II, but his legacy was the creation of a CIA department that aimed to ...

French strategic expert Bruno Tertrais charts the awakening of empires contesting the United States’ monopoly on global leadership in “War of the Worlds: The Return of Geopolitics and the Clash of ...

The United States is not in a cold war with China, and that’s precisely the problem. Unlike the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party has no interest in a stable, rules-based standoff. The CCP is ...

B ooks were smuggled on boats, trains and trucks, concealed in food tins, baby nappies and even the sheet music of travelling ...

Henk Rogers, the businessman and video game developer who was that actual bigshot American who went to Russia to bring the ...

For northern border states, the intensifying trade war with Canada could have staggering ... with increased price quotes on greenhouses and other farming infrastructure. Moreover, local farmers ...

"A foreign national operating [a drone] raises a concern about that person being involved in some type of espionage or intelligence ... developed during the Cold War, making them ill-equipped ...

More than six decades after President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, newly unsealed government documents are pulling back the curtain on Cold War spycraft, internal power struggles, and ...

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