As a historian working in professional military education, I find myself in the awkward position of warning strategists and students alike against drawing too many lessons from history. As quick ...

In April 1917, a sealed train crossed wartime Europe from Switzerland to Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg). Inside was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a revolutionary exile whose ideas were marginal, whose ...

First, they came with questions. Would there be a draft? Was this going to become World War III? What would an invasion of Ukraine mean for the United States? Then, as more and more information came ...