"China has engaged in the biggest conventional military build-up since the end of the Second World War. That’s a big thing to say," Marles said at the Defending Australia Summit. "Bigger than at any point during the Cold War.

It also imposed some initial caps on numbers of flag officers which had risen over the Cold War, not so much in overall numbers, but instead relative to the overall number of people in uniform. 

But real Cold War spies? Their gadgets were "DIY in places you’d really rather not discuss." The Rectal Toolkit In the 1960s, the CIA issued agents a rectal toolkit.

“During the Cold War, the [Soviet and CCP] communists opposed globalisation and free trade. What has changed is that Beijing decided to accept [and use] the rules-based order,” he said.

Putin appeared on television to announce that Moscow is considering a resumption in testing for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War in 1991.

Miller backs China’s territorial claims to Taiwan and views U.S. support for the island as an archaic holdover from the Cold War years. People learning self-defense at Fortitude Ranch in Texas.

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It is worth noting that, in their early decades, both the “rules-based international order” and post-Cold War globalization delivered real and substantial benefits to the United States as a whole.

So it is an understatement to say that the United States, which fought hard to achieve air superiority over the Soviet Union to keep the Cold War from turning hot, is now in a vital race to ensure that U.S. air power can continue to deter global conflict

"For 30 or 40 years, we have allowed countries to treat us unfairly in global trade, much of it during the Cold War because we wanted them to be rich and prosperous because they were our allies in the Cold War," Rubio told host Margaret Brennan.

For the first time since the Cold War, Washington is openly treating a rival power not merely as a competitor, but as a comprehensive adversary, whose internal stability may ultimately shape the balance of global power.

In 1984, Tom Clancy published “The Hunt for Red October,” capturing a terrifying Cold War nightmare: a Soviet submarine so acoustically silent that it could bypass Atlantic early-warning networks and park undetected off the American coast, becoming a

The Cold War alliance emerged from the strategic realities of postwar reconstruction. Today, the rise of China and the instability of the regional security environment are again accelerating internal change.

This is because home ownership was central to the construction of the American Dream during the Cold War.

Cost of Efficiency Alone After the Cold War, Western nations embraced a prolonged "peace dividend." A defining moment arrived in July 1993 at the Pentagon's "Last Supper" meeting.

In its report, the Oversight Committee said the United States is facing "a new cold war," and is in a more vulnerable situation than it was during the last cold war against the Soviet Union.

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The threat of nuclear war is not new: There is an archive of nuclear threats and alerts going back to the Cold War. Those threats are raising their ugly head again. How real is this current nuclear threat?

(Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images) Cold War Proposal The idea of a supranational European army was first proposed during the Cold War to counter the capabilities of the Soviet Union and ensure that German rearmament did not threaten its neighbors

For those born after the end of the Cold War, it’s easy to take this for granted. It can feel like America has always been dominant. It hasn’t. Especially because public schools don’t teach it, we need to look at the roots of America’s greatness.

In a December statement detailing the Drone Dominance Program, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth described the U.S. military's acquisition model since the Cold War era as one that focused on quality over quantity.

But there was no grace period, as the U.N. launched into the Cold War. Cold War Stalemate The U.N. was barely a year old when U.S.–Soviet rivalry turned the Security Council into a veto arena.

Administration Actions Over the past year, the White House has implemented a broad array of measures to secure domestic supplies of critical minerals and materials, whether through export restrictions or invoking the Cold War-era Defense Production Act

With the end of the Cold War, however, the opportunities for competition and the number of possible competitors declined and costs for programs skyrocketed.

This was published just after the Cold War had begun. There was no particular reason to think he had changed his mind and we have no indication as to why he dropped the section.

"But we are still spending far less than during the Cold War, even though the threats to our freedom and security are just as big—if not bigger."

It was founded during the Cold War, and was close to the Soviet Union and later communist Vietnam. It dropped its Marxist-Leninist ideology in the early 1990s.

of the Cold War, either inadequate or uninterested to perform such a thoughtfully orchestrated task.

(Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) A historical museum display highlights important symbols and artifacts from the Cold War on Nov. 4, 2025.

It had a much larger American military footprint during the Cold War. Trump Crossing ‘Red Lines’: Danish Ambassador The June 12 event at which Murkowksi spoke also included a panel with officials from Greenland, Denmark, and Norway.