Between the late 1970s and the 1980s, the Soviet Military Encyclopedia defined war as a sociopolitical phenomenon, borrowing terms from Vladimir Lenin’s work, whose death had facilitated the ...

Throughout its brief but interesting life, the Progvev-T encountered numerous problems that ultimately doomed this gonzo idea to obscurity.

Red Army explores how Soviet citizens got a huge boost throughout the drab Brezhnev era by the notion that the Soviet Army hockey team was wasting all foes on the way to possible 1980 Olympic Gold.

If you’re old enough, you may recall a similar exercise from the 1980s, when Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger would release a volume called Soviet Military Power each year around budget time ...

By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Soviet Union’s collapse halted many experimental military programs, including the laser pistol.