"The Founders chose this name to signal our strength and resolve to the world," the order declared. "The name 'Department of ...

Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

War might not be the locomotive of history, but it drives the writing of the world’s most-published historian. Jeremy Black’s extraordinary body of work regularly returns to themes in military history ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Stella, a WWII refugee, shares her story of never losing hope for a better world. Stella Andrássy fled the Red Army invasion of Hungary in 1945. Born in Sweden, she married into one of Hungary's most ...

President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789. “It used to be called the Department of War and it ...

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U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it. For 18 years, America has been at war in Afghanistan. As part of a government project to understand what went ...

Editor’s Note: Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and the editor of “War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict.” The following is an edited excerpt taken ...

You’re reading this week’s At War newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday. Email us at [email protected]. In a newly released book, “Killer High: A History of War in ...

A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, ...

"Now more than ever, we are focusing our technology on the future of Total War," Pitkethly concluded. "So previously we ...