Top 4 wars fought over consumer goods
The current lack of consumer goods scandals might lead people to think that food and product safety regulations have always been suitable. Undoubtedly, it took years of consumer outrage to…
5 reasons why medieval wars were the worst for everyone involved
War is not junior varsity basketball. There are no participation trophies and no one fights a battle thinking it’s okay to lose as long as you have fun. In the…
3 of the stupidest wars ever fought in world history
There are a lot of good reasons humans have gone to war in the past few centuries, believe it or not. Halting or preventing genocides, declaring independence to give oppressed people a homeland, and of course, defending ones homeland from an invader…
This is how American wars changed the course of prosthetics
By the 16th century, Middle Eastern countries were dabbling in the art of modern prosthetics. Wood and metal limb replacements were used for people who were injured or had been…
This war was started over a bucket
As in, a literal bucket. A container that is most often used today for gardening, carrying things, even sitting when a chair can’t be found – that is the source…
These 7 tiny details changed the outcomes of wars
Sometimes the smallest thing can mean the difference between nations emerging triumphant or collapsing in defeat. Here are 7 moments from military history where the outcomes hinged on a minor detail:
1. A colonel didn’t read a no…
4 battles that took place after the war ended
Wars are generally long, bloody, and horrible affairs that everyone is anxious to wrap up so that everyone can go back home.
But for some reason, there have been wars that don’t end on time. Here are four times that the U.S. found itsel…
Here’s why Civil War soldiers had wounds that glowed in the dark
During the Civil War, a strange thing happened at night. In the cover of darkness, the silence of hunkering down during war, soldiers’ wounds would glow. Open, bleeding wounds actually…
The Marine Corps wrote the book on ‘small wars,’ literally
As the United States came into its own as a world power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States Marine Corps became the primary tool for power projection into troubled areas. The Marines deployed all over t…
That time one Egyptian soldier held off an entire Israeli advance
History is written by the victors, so we don’t hear a lot of stories from the armies of those who lost the war. For stories of heroism to spread, it’s…