As we enter spring 2024, Ukraine’s military position looks tenuous. Its counter-offensive in 2023 did not achieve the ambitious results that Ukraine’s allies had hoped for, and the Ukrainians are now ...

The Iron Cross, one of the most widely recognized military decorations, originated during the Napoleonic Wars in 1813 when ...

The Battle of Königgrätz, a climactic juncture in the week-long military maneuvers across Bohemia during the Austro-Prussian ...

The past, famously, is a foreign country. Unfortunately, it often seems that “foreign wars” fought before 1900 are too distant to find their way into our policy analysis. And without understanding the ...

A united German nation was about to be created under the leadership of Prussia when the 1870 census for Idaho Territory’s Boise County revealed that Germany was made up of many small states. When ...

“Battles,” Carl Von Clausewitz said, “decide everything.” Yet the famed Prussian military theorist is wrong. Great battles and brilliant leaders can shape the course of events. But often it is ...

In Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee tells the story of the cultural fallout of this military misadventure. Smee focuses on the ...

IN France, after the period of prostration that followed the War of 1870, theories of strategy and tactics swiftly took a new direction. As the new army increased in strength, the former tendencies ...