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.

In his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian Wars, the late classicist Donald Kagan sought to counter the popular conception of Thucydides’ history of that period, per which the clash between ...

The Peloponnesian War gave rise to the person that wrote its history. This was Thucydides, an Athenian general who in 424 -423 BCE failed to prevent Spartans from capturing Amphipolis in Thrace ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

From at least the time of Ancient Greece, tariffs and trade restrictions have been a factor behind wars. As U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs worldwide and particularly on America's ...

How a trade war becomes a shooting war. Trump and Xi, take note: The United States and China risk falling into a trap over tariffs.