In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of ...

The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. This phrase has been invoked by political pundits and leaders, including the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, over the past few days as ...

What turns rivalry into war? History suggests it is rarely ideology or ambition alone. More often, it is fear, miscalculation ...

The Melian Dialogue is Thucydides’ account of the conflict between Athens and Melos, and the moral dilemma of whether "might ...

Canadian PM Carney cited Ancient Greece's Thucydides at Davos, warning middle powers to act as tariffs and supply chains ...

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Bret C. Devereaux, an ancient military historian and Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at North Carolina State ...

Retreat of the Athenians from Syracuse during a battle of the Peloponnesian War, from Cassell's 'Universal History,' published in 1888. Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

How do you turn a metaphor into an axiom? Try: “Strategist appropriation.” When writing on politics and war, this means lardering your first few graphs with maxims from so-called “masters of war,” ...

Last month at War on the Rocks, Marine War College professor Jim Lacey held forth on how to teach Thucydides. Read the whole thing and hurry back! Let’s congratulate Professor Lacey for raising ...

Thucydides surely did not lack ambition. He hoped his massive narrative would be “a possession for all time.” In writing his first and only book, Thucydides claimed It will be enough for me if these ...

Graham Allison, as early as 2013 but also last year in his book, “Destined for War,” created quite a buzz with his concept of the Thucydides’ Trap: “When one great power threatens to displace another, ...