The history of war is the history of humankind, and it is a lengthy timeline of the most brutal savagery people can visit upon each other. It is a terrible storybook of blood and fire and pain. Armies ...

During World War 2, the German submarine U-852 sank the Greek merchant ship Peleus, after which the U-boat commander ordered the killing of the helpless survivors. At the war’s end the U-boat ...

Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...

There’s a lot of discussion as to whether the U.S. Navy’s “double tap” strike of Sept. 2 — the latter hit killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of an alleged drug boat — constitutes a war ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice on the rules of engagement in war. In his book The War on Warriors, published last year, Hegseth wrote ...