The quote of the day, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, defines courage not as having strength, but as continuing forward ...

Before his disastrous invasion of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Geography is destiny!” This assertion prompts thinking ...

Both Napoleon and Hitler underestimated the resolve and capacity of their adversaries. During WW2, German intelligence ...

Napoleon famously said that ‘the best marshals are the luckiest ones,’ and in military matters the same rule can be applied ...

Prologue On December 20, 2025, the European Union (EU) almost crossed the Rubicon. It tried seizing Russian financial assets in Belgium for funding and ...

BBC iPlayer is currently showing a favourite drama that's been inspired by an "epic book". Viewers say it's so "beautiful", they think it's a 10/10 show.

War is full of surprises. Sometimes the underdog triumphs against impossible odds, and other times, overwhelming force ...

Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor will e.

Guy Mettan explained that the earliest fabricated document accusing Russia of seeking to conquer the West and establish European hegemony was the so-called last will and testament of Peter the Great ...

Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawns, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall ...

Trump claims that Venezuela stole our oil and that he wants it back. The history — and the law — don’t quite support that claim. It was never our oil. It was never our land. A century ago, a ...

Be candid, don’t overpraise and, as I discovered, other family members can be an unreliable source of information ...