Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...

The attack on Venezuela was premediated and unsurprising except in one, significant respect: U.S. officials, most notably the garrulous president, did not mask their motives, minimize the violence, or ...

Wars are rarely fought with perfect equipment. Throughout history, militaries have fielded weapons they knew were flawed, ...

The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

The Suomi KP/-31 was one of the lesser-known and yet most influential submachine guns of the Second World War. It was the ...

THERE is something alien—different, distant, disconcerting—about the voice, the technology. A herd of sheep has been decimated. 6000 of them. The field. Journalist has named the cause: nerve gas. Now, ...

By their lawless attacks on Venezuela, the desperate men of the Trump administration threaten to trigger a civil war.

Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover-Up explores the life and times of one of America’s greatest investigative reporters.

Fort Rosecrans is best known as a place of remembrance — but it has also, briefly and intentionally, become part of San Diego’s film history.

The de Havilland Mosquito was a fast British multi-role combat aircraft that flew in 1940. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin ...

Historian Will Durant observed that peace is an unstable equilibrium which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power. War is a constant of human history and human nature and ...

From Iran to Iraq, Brazil to Vietnam, Washington has sought to topple leaders and regimes it thinks are acting against its ...