In 431 B.C., Athens and Sparta went to war. Nearly 50 years earlier, in 480 B.C., the two cities had united to lead the Hellenic alliance that repelled a Persian invasion. In the mostly peaceful ...

Section 1. Purpose. On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington signed into law a bill establishing the United States Department of War to oversee the operation and maintenance of ...

There is no greater spur to wrongdoing than the fear of being wronged oneself. Here, I summarize the thought of Hugo Grotius, the great Dutch jurist, whose systematization of just war ethics remains a ...

Just as in the Peloponnesian War, the Ukraine-Russia conflict echoes the clash of entrenched powers locked in a struggle over order, influence, and survival. Image: Ancient Greek pottery dating to the ...

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Pre-war commercial aviation looked completely different from today’s digitized world of computer-controlled, intercontinental flight. If you wanted to travel the globe in style in, say, 1934, the ...

Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy and director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, is the author of “Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to War.” Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...

Earlier this year, Timex released what is almost certainly the best watch the American brand has ever created. That watch was a collab with EDC favorite The James Brand, and it had a whole lot going ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. War will always be one of the most popular settings for ...