The Okefenokee is huge, covering hundreds of miles, but it is shallow — only two feet deep in many places — and it isn’t fed by any waterways. Rain is the swamp’s only source of replenishment.

The residents within pelted rotten eggs and chanted “foreign devils”, but their attempts at resistance were quickly ...

Contemporary wars, so-called wars of attrition or attrition, on whatever continent they are fought, have one thing in common at some point: a shortage of military personnel. And so, mercenaries emerge ...