An earthquake in Sparta in the year 464 BCE started a series of events which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War.

Ancient Greek military thinking and strategy presents useful lessons for modern military theorists and practitioners.

Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video ...

Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action — action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary's capacity ...

People have been left astonished after a man seemingly made an eerily accurate prediction about Donald Trump and Iran, a whole year before it unfolded. But, rather than claiming to be a mystic who ...

Israel has committed itself to the proposition that Iran must never acquire nuclear weapons. Having built its regional security doctrine around preemptive action, nuclear monopoly and deterrence ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was fought between two of the most powerful ancient Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta. In the summer of 424 BC, its contemporary historian, the Athenian ...

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY The Thucydides' Trap is a term first used by US political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency toward war when an emerging power threatens to displace an ...

Your first visit today is the Archaeological Museum of Sparta, which houses thousands of artefacts from the nearby ancient acropolis. It is one of Greece’s oldest archaeological museums and ...

This is the third installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here and ...