In dealing with both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types of war exist?; 3) Why do wars occur?; 4) What is the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The loss of Alfred is one of the most grievous that readers have ever seen Batman endure. While ...

THE GUNS OF AUGUST (511 pp.)—Barbara W. Tuchman—Macmillan ($6.95). World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of ...

Scores, hundreds, thousands of French, British, Germans—seasoned survivors of World War I as well as fresh-faced fodder for World War II—suffered painful, personal wounds or death along the ...

We were in Bosnia for just short of a week in April this year. Our visit was primarily to see the site of the gunshot in Sarajevo that sparked the two World Wars, which defined world history in the ...

The first thing you notice might be the carved emerald at the center of the Van Cleef & Arpels necklace. Its design also includes rubies and diamonds, and its estimate is between $200,000 and $300,000 ...

AUSMIN brings together foreign and defence ministers from the US and Australia and is the chief vehicle for managing the alliance. The latest AUSMIN meeting produced this remarkable declaration by US ...

Professor Stig Förster joins hosts Professor Beatrice Heuser and Paul O'Neill to discuss the controversies surrounding the German strategists: von der Goltz, von Schlieffen and Bernhardi. At the turn ...