The military prestige of Alexander’s successors, otherwise known as Diadochi, has now reached its zenith in the person of King Pyrrhus of Epirus. But the fledgling state of Rome is still trying to ...

President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the war in Iran even before the conflict is over. But despite killing the country’s leader and seriously degrading its military, there is an argument ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) That term also shows up in Iraq War retrospectives, in postmortems of U.S. operations ...

There is little doubt the United States can achieve its tactical objectives against Iran through military force—but what if doing so leads to strategic calamity elsewhere in the world? King Pyrrhus of ...

Industry fund Vision Super has appointed Jonathan Stagg as its new head of unlisted assets. Stagg joins from Zenith Investment Partners, which he joined in November 2023 as part of the real assets ...

The term “Pyrrhic Victory” stands as a testament to the intriguing and often paradoxical nature of warfare. Originating within the victories of the Greek king Pyrrhus of Epirus, this term has found ...

The Macedonian Phalanx at the Battle of the Carts against the Thracians in 335 BC. Public Domain The ancient Greek and Roman armies were large and fearsome for their time, yet their warfare tactics ...

In that same decade, under Nero’s reign, the men of the IX built the fort of Lindum Colonia, the seed of the present city of Lincoln, although later, around 71 A.D., they would move to Eboracum (York) ...

The delightfully-British historian and author Dominic Selwood threw it in at the end of our interview. We had been discussing his country’s national identity. “One more thing,” he said with a sheepish ...