The White House has released a ‘readout’ of a phone call from US President Joe Biden to newly-elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, congratulating Mr Albanese on his election win.

Despite on-going negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, heavy fighting continues in east Ukraine, with key locations coming under intense bombardment from Russian forces.

The largest Allied raid on Berlin took place on March 18 1945—shortly before Germany's surrender in May 45; some historians argue the raid was designed to justify the massive cost of the conventional bombing campaign in Europe.

Truman became President after the death of President Roosevelt and, despite having little experience, proved more than capable of ending the war against the Japanese and managing the peace in both Europe and Japan after the war.

John Keegan's 1976 book The Face of Battle examines what it must have been like to be an ordinary soldier at three famous battles, Agincourt, Waterloo and the WW1 Battle of the Somme.

In the WW1 naval Battle of Jutland, the British calculated the odds and based their strategy on those odds and only accepted battle under perfect conditions— Britain was then unable to force a German withdrawal and keep them bottled up for the rest of the war.

The objectives and importance of the Quad in keeping the Indo-Pacific influence free and supporting indebted regional nations is demonstrated by the attendance of all member state leaders and the US trying to make India a reliable partner.

The authors of this article assert that Russia has failed to understand the importance of airpower in its invasion of Ukraine. And that, they claim, is the reason Russia’s invasion is struggling to make headway.

A third of Russians say the Soviet Union was fully justified to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968—this suggests that Russian propaganda is effective at changing the way today's Russians see the world.

Putin is following the example of Stalin in systematically setting out to destroy Ukrainian nationalism and even the idea of Ukraine by controlling and rewriting history.