Fortifications have historically posed immense challenges to attacking armies. Over the centuries, they often necessitated prolonged and costly sieges - draining resources, inflicting heavy casualties ...
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 ...
The war in Ukraine has gouged a scar in the landscape so vast, that it's easily visible from space. A new analysis by NASA's Harvest program and shared exclusively with NPR shows that between 5.2 and ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Vikram Mittal is a contributor who covers aerospace and defense. DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE - JUNE 1: Ukrainian soldiers of the 55th ...