The War on Terror’s Blowback: How the West Weakened Itself After 9/11
When the US Navy killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, it was widely regarded as a symbolic and strategic victory…
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How Italy’s Underground Press Helped Defeat Fascism in World War II
In the fall of 1943, Bianca Guidetti Serra, a young anti-fascist partisan, defied the Italian authorities to create her first…
U.S.-Canada War Planning Is Surprisingly Common
For the past century, the United States and Canada have been the best of friends, and war between them was…
Foreign Aid Cuts Threaten Demining Efforts After Israel-Hezbollah War
TYRE DISTRICT, Lebanon—On a day in mid-February, Hasan Hamzeh walked into a cabin nestled among trees and overgrowth on a…
The 20th Century’s Lessons for Our New Era of War – Foreign Policy
America must “pay the price for peace,” said President Harry Truman in 1948, or it would “pay the price of…
The Former U.S. President’s Cold War Legacy
The morning after U.S. presidential candidate Ronald Reagan crushed incumbent President Jimmy Carter with a 44-state landslide in 1980, the…
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is a War of Demography
We live in a strange time marked by widespread and ongoing depopulation. The entire world is grappling with a crisis…
How to Read Propaganda in Times of War
This is Fair Observer’s new feature offering a review of the way language is used, sometimes for devious purposes, in the news.…
How the Cold War Forged India’s Intelligence
When Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned under pressure amid mass student protests in August, some of Indian Prime Minister…