This episode explains Finland’s “motti” tactic in January 1940—encircling Soviet units into isolated pockets that slowly ...

What the defeat of the Lapua Movement in the 1940s can teach the US today.

Americans like to cheer for the underdog. But when little Finland was invaded by the mighty Soviet Union in December 1939, folks in Southeast Minnesota became more than cheerleaders. This faraway war, ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

The complicated relationship between Russia and Finland is yet again in a state of decline. Finland formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the world's largest military alliance, on ...