Fortifications have historically posed immense challenges to attacking armies. Over the centuries, they often necessitated prolonged and costly sieges - draining resources, inflicting heavy casualties ...

The U.S. Defense Department has observed Russian forces stalling out in their advance as well as anecdotal instances of sagging morale among the troops. A senior U.S. defense official hesitated to ...

Portuguese fortresses, equipped with stone walls and cannon, were the key to their survival against repeated Sinhalese attempts to oust them from coastal regions The 1630 siege of Colombo failed ...

Russia’s “God of War” is coming back with a vengeance. The Soviet Union had a plethora of heavy artillery that could shoot nuclear and conventional shells, a fact that NATO would have learned the hard ...

When George Washington began writing letters of thanks following his 1781 victory at Yorktown, no one loomed larger in his mind than the commanders of the Allied artillery batteries that decided the ...

THE U.S. last week began to abandon Khe Sanh, the once idyllic valley in South Viet Nam’s northwest corner that early this year became the scene of the war’s biggest and bitterest siege. The news ...

At least 60 killed in attack on Sudan's Al-Fashir, activists say (File image) Drone and artillery strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a shelter in the Sudanese city of Al Fashir killed ...