Former British defense secretary calls Royal Navy’s submarine name change ‘woke nonsense’
Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...
The Heroes Of Homer's Iliad Are Eco-Warriors Battling To Protect Nature
Homers Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the ...
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The Latest Absurd Defense Question: Warriors or Soldiers? The Nation Needs Both.
Eliot Cohen is a respected military historian. I have most of his books in my professional library and I was one of his ...
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When War Strikes, Everyone Suffers – Even Achilles
And Snake Island was raised from the sea bed by the goddess Thetis, as a refuge for the soul of her son, Achilles – yes, the hero of the Trojan War, whose heel spawned an ancient aphorism. According ...
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Achilles wrote to wife in Athens during Civil War
Achilles’ tales from the Civil War battlefront aren’t so very different than those of Achilles from the front lines of the Trojan War. Thanks to the ancient, epic poet Homer, we can understand ...
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Five of Iliad’s Lesser Known Characters Make Grandest Story Ever Told
Homer's Iliad has a vast cast of characters. Many of these names are less familiar to mainstream audiences than mighty ...
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Ancient Greece: The Trojan War - Episode 6
Achilles is killed by a flukey arrow to the heel and Odysseus has a plan for a secret weapon to end the war - a wooden horse. The Old Soldier returns to the prophecy that Achilles will be killed ...
The U.S. Needs Soldiers, Not Warriors
Soldiers are different. They are servants of the state. In well-governed countries, they are bound by discipline, the rule of ...
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Ancient Greece: The Trojan War
Episode 6. videoEpisode 6 Achilles is killed by an arrow to the heel...and Odysseus has a plan for a secret weapon to end the war. The events of the Trojan War are written about in a number of ...