This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Sep. 25, 1948. It is republished unedited in its original form. Life in Berlin for Americans these days is still fairly normal ...

China’s 2024 Joint Sword exercises, and more recent Strait Thunder-2025A exercise, awakened the public psyche to the reality that the People’s Liberation Army is not just training, but rehearsing to ...

Long Island played a key role in a storied chapter at the beginning of the Cold War known as the Berlin Airlift. June 26 marked the 75th anniversary of the start of the pivotal campaign during which ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single independent ...

Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21, 1948: Three months in, the meat department at the Berlin commissary in West Berlin’s American Sector still offers the same variety as it did before the Berlin Blockade.