The United States and European powers had grown increasingly dissatisfied with treaties following the First Opium War....
Warfare
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...
Throughout history, individuals, states, or political factions have gained sovereignty over regions through the use of war....
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...
Siege tactics were a crucial part of medieval warfare. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Siege tactics were a...
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...
One area in which Archimedes excelled was in the design and construction of great war machines. By...
From simple, organized Greek farmers to a powerful, flexible army. By Ian JosephBA Cultural Anthropology, The University of...
The battle marked the end of the internal conflict in the Roman Empire and the solidification of...
Figure 1: Greek Colonization of western Asia Minor / Image by Alexikoua, Wikimedia Commons The development of...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long-range strategic ballistic rocket test launch. KCNA via Reuters...
An almost life-size terracotta Aztec Eagle Warrior, one of the elite warrior groups in the Aztec military. 13-15th century...
Examining the available evidence for the use of horses and armor for them in medieval Islam warfare, with...
1904 reunion of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade / Wikimedia Commons A misinterpreted order, near...
A brief historical context of Xenophon’s Anabasis By Ian Joseph BA Cultural Anthropology, The University of Chicago...
April 1562, The Timucua, an indigenous tribe in Florida, shoot burning arrows into the village of a...
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, recent site of gunpowder factory. / Photo by Cheungkkanthony, Wikimedia Commons Gunpowder was...
This elaborate set of ritual bronzes, consisting of an altar table and thirteen wine vessels, illustrates the...
Replica of the original Fat Man bomb. “Fat Man” was the codename for the atomic bomb that...
An unhealed gash on the forehead suggests that the man died a violent death, perhaps in battle....
A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and...