Bouncing along the open Saudi desert heading toward the first line of Iraqi troops, Marine Capt. Ray Sturm was aware of how exposed his unit was. “I'd do anything for a tree to hide behind," he said ...

PERSIAN GULF WAR. Clevelanders felt shock and anger on 2 Aug. 1990, upon hearing news reports that Iraqi armies had invaded Kuwait. The aggression by the large, well-equipped army of Iraq against a ...

What drove the Ancient Greeks to fight wars, thousands of years ago? The answer may surprise you, because what we consider “good” and selfless reasons to fight paradoxically led to more wars than the ...

The surprise defeat of the mighty Persian Empire in 490 B.C. began the Golden Age of Athens and the Greco-Persian wars. A well-armed Greek hoplite (right) slays a Persian soldier in a detail from a ...

History—the rational and methodical study of the human past—was invented by a single man just under twenty-five hundred years ago; just under twenty-five years ago, when I was starting a graduate ...

Throughout history, a number of conflicts, due to the quirky nature of international diplomacy, never officially ended. Of course, these "extended wars" have never actually had any bearing on ...

Wars have shaped the course of human civilization for thousands of years, but some wars last longer than a generation, evolving to decades or more than a century. Long historical wars generally ...

There are some lists that many nations would happily not be on – and this includes the deadliest conflicts in human history. The human toll has steadily increased in recent centuries, due largely ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The American Civil War is now remembered as the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. But it was far from the deadliest wars of the 19th century. There are some lists that ...