With the help of retired Navy Capt. Brayton Harris, who has written about the history of war reporting, NPR's Robert Siegel traces the ever-increasing speed with which news reports from the frontlines ...

The nature of war -- Generalship -- pt. 1. Ancient warfare: War in earliest times. The ancient Greeks. The expansion of Rome. The Roman defensive and the Barbarian migrations -- pt. 2. Medieval ...

Throughout history, warfare has shaped nations, altered borders, and left behind staggering human loss. While countless battles have been fought, some stand out for the sheer scale of death and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than a year after Jhonatan Andrés Martínez Villada left his home in the northern Colombian city of Santa Marta to fight on ...

The drive to explore is one of the most potent human urges. Finding out what's just around the next bend has been a prerogative of humanity since the earliest hunters and gatherers. As long as there ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, shocked the world. It marked the dangerous new dawn of nuclear weapons, and foreshadowed the horrific potential of World War Three should ...

Marines of the People’s Liberation Army Navy stand at attention as then-Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Rear Adm. Gary Roughead greets them following a demonstration of the brigade’s capabilities, ...

When you think about connections between science and war, the obvious links are in technology—advanced radar, spy satellites, more powerful explosives—and in medical innovations that seek to heal the ...