In 1918, the Marine Corps began investigating how the integration of women would take place. By Kenna...
Warfare
Ultimately, the Mongols would establish the largest empire the world had ever seen. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
If they washed out, they had to pay their own way home. If they were injured or...
Mr. Trump’s ‘America First’ approach has emboldened others backed by Russia and China. Brinkmanship may be his...
The collapse of the Cold War–era nuclear arms treaty signals trouble for U.S.-Russia relations, European security, and...
It’s long past time for a reckoning. When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned...
Discussing the role of animals in transport, logistics, cavalry and communications in the First World War. Introduction...
Information is being twisted or completely made up, and fighting it is no easy task. But we...
As a result of the need to exchange information faster and more efficiently, telecommunications advanced rapidly. As...
It was the first stage in the liberation of western Europe and a major step towards the...
Their experiences and memories—in oral histories, interviews, as well as in fiction and film—challenge the narrative of...
Missiles that fly 3,000 mph or faster – much faster than the speed of sound – are...
Developments forced a dramatic transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing tactics, weaponry, and fortifications....
The Battle of Zama not only ended the Second Punic War, it also established the Roman army...
Private contractors are particularly well-suited to slip between jurisdictions, because they don’t typically have a fixed employee...
The absence of a glorification of war in China was largely due to Confucian philosophy and literature....
Political and spiritual progenitors of a thermonuclear war – World War III. Abstract Recently, two powerful personalities...
The United States and European powers had grown increasingly dissatisfied with treaties following the First Opium War....
Western powers tried to gain unfettered access to Chinese products and markets for European and U.S. trade....
War animals have been with us for a very long time. There’s a good chance you’ve come...
Trump is suspending U.S. participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and is beginning the process of...
Twenty years from now, there will be no eyewitnesses left to tell their stories. Only twice in...
Although a widespread movement has developed to fight climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on...
November 1951 nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, from Operation Buster, with a yield of 21 kilotons. It...
Photo by Clay Gilliland, Flickr, Creative Commons The White House appears to have a broader strategy to unwind...
The weapon ceased to exist by the time the Ottoman Empire finally conquered Constantinople in 1453. September...
The napalm of ancient warfare. By Mark CartwrightHistor Introduction Greek Fire was an incendiary weapon first used in Byzantine...
Warhead-containing nose cone of an inert Minuteman 3 missile. AP Photo/Charlie Riede As the US talks up denuclearizing North Korea, a former defense...
Russia says it has successfully test-launched a hypersonic missile, one of a range of nuclear-capable weapons announced...
A view on the Roman cavalry forces, especially the equites legionis. By Dr. Stefan Zehetner Institut für...