In 1963, a massive natural gas well in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic suffered a catastrophic blowout, igniting an enormous ...

From an industrial economy that overtook Europe in the late nineteenth century to the architect of the post-war international ...

The munitions crisis and embargo in the latest war are a wake-up call requiring us to strive for comprehensive national independence - diplomatic, economic, and armament-related.

That has caused the kinds of gas shortages that many Russian citizens have not seen in their lifetimes. They originally started in Russia-occupied Crimea in May and have since spread to mainland ...

The war in Ukraine has produced many surprises, but perhaps none is as paradoxical as the emergence of fuel shortages inside ...

We may be at a point where the Ukraine war gets much, much worse – rather than some kind of peace agreement, says Oxford ...

America’s war of choice on Iran has spread across the Indian Ocean World and maritime Silk Route. Starved of oil and gas South and Southeast Asia’s emerging economies have seen local currencies fall ...

History is often explained in terms of forces so overwhelming that they seem to shape events regardless of individual ...

Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration. Today, ...

Since its founding in 1776, the United States has intervened abroad more than 500 times. A third of those interventions have ...

In its decision to launch a war against Iran in a bid to gain exclusive control over access to Persian oil and gas resources, the United States has ignored a harsh reality: Geography trumps military ...

Are you old enough to remember the Cold War? At first, only the U.S. had the atomic bomb. Secrets were leaked, and then atomic capabilities were dispersed. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were prosecuted ...