In a world of shifting borders and fleeting regimes, one truth remains enduring: civilizations remember. Unlike nation-states ...

American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and ...

Secondly, and this is overlooked with nauseating regularity by those with little or no military critical thinking. It ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...