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The United States' foreign policy during the Cold War era, including its relations with the USSR and other countries.
The principal legal framework governing U.S. military presence in Greenland is the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, negotiated at NATO’s reques...
President Harry S. Truman recognized the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 because a convergence of moral conviction about Jewish suffering after the Holocaust, domestic political pressures and advisers...
The scenario — that holding Alaska plus seizing Greenland would allow a U.S. president to “surround Canada” and roll through a chain of countries from Canada to Russia, Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia, ...
proposed paying $100 million (specifically suggested as in gold) for in 1946, a secret initiative rooted in strategic concerns; Denmark did not accept and the idea faded into a historical footnote tha...
Immediate recognition of on signaled a political alignment that perceived as Western preference for the Zionist project, hardened Arab rejection of the UN Partition, and contributed to the politicizat...
The April 9, 1941 “Agreement Relating to the Defense of Greenland,” signed by Danish Ambassador Henrik Kauffmann and U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull, gave the United States broad wartime rights to defend ...
The 1951 U.S.–Denmark “Defense of Greenland” agreement authorizes U.S. forces to establish, operate and use designated “defense areas” in Greenland as part of NATO collective-defense planning, but it ...
Apollo 11 was the first crewed lunar landing, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touching down on July 20, 1969, and Armstrong becoming the first human to walk on the Moon—a moment watched by an esti...
The preponderance of available reporting and official timelines shows that the current large-scale phase of the Russo‑Ukrainian war began when Russia launched a full‑scale invasion on February 24, 202...
Donald Trump has repeatedly said the United States should acquire Greenland for national-security reasons and has directed aides to explore options ranging from purchase to a Compact of Free Associati...
Greenland’s strategic importance to the United States is rooted in a Cold War-era security logic—its geography anchors early-warning, missile-defense and Arctic surveillance networks and sits astride ...