WIESBADEN, Germany - History was not kind to the grand ideas of French Minister of War Andre Maginot. As the namesake for the massive line of fortifications intended to stop Germany from ever again ...

Marc Halter takes Indy and all of us on a tour through the fort at Schoenenbourg on the Maginot Line. Lions QB Jared Goff ...

The Maginot Line was not the failure many think - in fact it was quite a remarkable feat - find out more in this video.

Robert Frost was neither a military strategist nor policy wonk, but his poem “Mending Wall” captures the paradox of defensive walls. While walls are often built to defend against others, those same ...

May 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops. He spent the next two years in prison. In 1869, the "golden spike" was driven at ...

In more than 150 U.S. newspapers last week, Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop offered their readers an intimate portrait of Dwight Eisenhower unable to sleep at night as he wrestled with a problem ...

Alan warns that cybersecurity is stuck in a “Maginot Line” mindset — clinging to outdated tools while attackers weaponize AI, supply chain compromises, and polymorphic malware. He argues for AI-native ...

The Karl-Gerät, literally the Karl-Device, was one of Nazi Germany’s largest siege mortars, and one of the biggest mortars ever built. It is difficult to overstate both the Karl-Gerät’s size... Here’s ...

For three-quarters of a century, through three wars and the twilight years of peace, tiny Alsace was a depressed no-man’s land between the guns of France and Germany. The province changed flags four ...

Pope Francis summed it up neatly but harshly when he called the Mediterranean “the world’s biggest cemetery” — but so did Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who insists that her country will not ...

As any strategist knows, what one individual tries to defend, another individual will overcome and destroy; case in point, the “Maginot Line” over the United States or the “Golden Dome”. At one time, ...