Greece has consistently been one of NATO’s top defense spenders, with its tense relationship with Turkey being a key factor ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

Thus, they were well aware that the Venetian navy underpinned that city’s republican institutions, much as the Athenian navy had protected rather than threatened the city’s democracy; that the ...

Naming military vessels is something that occurred before and after classical Athens—even today, they conclude. Do we name ships to honor heroes of our past in the same way Athenians honored Achilles ...

So, too, Athens’ exploitative behavior eventually left her bereft of allies save the few Greek cities that either bore a grudge against the Spartans or feared the threat of the Athenian navy.

Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited USS Thomas Hudner while the ship was in port at ...

This is the story of John Achilles Harris of Athens. Achilles of Athens’ military career. Achilles Harris was a husband, father, and private from a town named Athens in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.

Whether it's Athens and Sparta or the U.S., Israel and Iran, the lessons (and the tragedies) remain the same for Trump and ...

Athens High School graduate David J. Bligh has been nominated by President Donald Trump to be appointed as the Navy’s new ...

ATHENS, Greece — Greece formally approved an offer to buy 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the United States as part of a major defense overhaul, government officials said Thursday.

The twenty-seven-year Peloponnesian War came to an end when the Spartan navy destroyed the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami and seized control of the Bosphorus, severing Athens’s food supply and ...

For a more detailed examination of the war at sea during the Persian Wars, see Barry A. Strauss, Salamis: The Greatest Naval Battle of the Ancient World, 480 BC (London: Arrow, 2004), pp. 13–37, ...