A Very Brief History of China’s Claim to Taiwan

The large island due east of mainland China, Taiwan, continues to be in the news because the communist government in Beijing believes that the island is a renegade province and should be forcibly brought under the control of their government. Fighter jets from the...

The Winter War of 1939 and Today

On November 30, 1939 Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Army invaded Finland. The Russians had demanded certain tracts of land to be handed over to their control, but the Finns had told them to go pound snow. The Russians responded by invading with an army of half a million...