During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: If the PLAN officers reflect the conventional outlook among China’s decision-makers—and there’s little reason to think otherwise—then protracted strategic competition ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...

On Sparta’s Second Attic War, by Paul A. Rahe. Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent ...

When Athens waged the Peloponnesian War against Sparta, it dispatched troops to the small city of Melos. Melos pleaded, “We ...

The wisdom of the ancients can help Washington, its allies, and its friends discern how to reply to China’s Melian challenge. So dust off that copy of Thucydides—and let’s get cracking. Here's What ...