In the freezing winter of 1939, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of Finland, expecting an easy victory. Instead, they encountered fierce resistance from outnumbered Finnish troops who used ...

James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a retired US Navy admiral, former supreme allied commander of NATO, and ...

That was the Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War. That's when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered troops to invade after the Finns refused to accede to demands from Moscow.

On March 6, 1918, the Finnish Air Force (FAF) was officially established, making it one of the world's oldest air forces. Born out of the Finnish Civil War, the FAF began with a single aircraft-a ...