WarNation covers military history, decisive battles, and the strategic thinking behind them — deep, evergreen reads on the wars and commanders that shaped the world.https://warnation.com/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-borodino-1812/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-borodino-1812/Napoleon's bloodiest day: inside the 1812 Battle of Borodino, the brutal fight for the flèches and Great Redoubt, and the road to Moscow's fall and ruin.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:59:41 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-hattin-1187/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-hattin-1187/How Saladin lured the Crusader army into the waterless hills of Galilee in 1187, destroyed it at Hattin, and set up Jerusalem's fall three months later.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:59:41 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-salamis-480-bc/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-salamis-480-bc/Themistocles tricked Xerxes's fleet into a narrow Greek strait in 480 BC, delivering the naval victory at Salamis that broke Persia's invasion of Greece.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:59:41 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-inchon-1950/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-inchon-1950/MacArthur defied his own Joint Chiefs to land at Inchon's impossible tides and seawalls, shattering North Korea's army and reversing the Korean War in days.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:51:54 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/siege-of-vienna-1683/https://warnation.com/articles/siege-of-vienna-1683/In 1683 a Polish-led relief army broke the Ottoman siege of Vienna in a massive cavalry charge, halting Ottoman expansion into Central Europe for good.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:51:54 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-austerlitz-1805/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-austerlitz-1805/How Napoleon lured a larger Russian-Austrian army into a trap at Austerlitz in 1805, winning his most decisive victory and shattering the Third Coalition.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:51:54 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-zama-202-bc/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-zama-202-bc/How Scipio Africanus out-generaled Hannibal Barca at Zama in 202 BC, using Masinissa's cavalry and elephant-countering tactics to end the Second Punic War.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:51:54 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-iwo-jima-1945/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-iwo-jima-1945/How the Marines fought Kuribayashi's underground fortress on Iwo Jima, the true story behind the famous flag-raising photo, and the battle's staggering cost.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:22:12 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/fall-of-constantinople-1453/https://warnation.com/articles/fall-of-constantinople-1453/How Sultan Mehmed II's 53-day siege breached the legendary Theodosian Walls in 1453, killed Constantine XI, and ended the thousand-year Byzantine Empire.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:22:12 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-the-somme-1916/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-the-somme-1916/The Battle of the Somme (1916) cost over a million Allied and German casualties across five brutal months, including the deadliest day in British Army history.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:22:12 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/siege-of-yorktown-1781/https://warnation.com/articles/siege-of-yorktown-1781/How Washington, Rochambeau, and a French fleet trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:50 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-midway-1942/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-midway-1942/How American codebreakers and a handful of dive bombers sank four Japanese carriers at Midway and turned the Pacific War.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-gaugamela-331-bc/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-gaugamela-331-bc/How Alexander the Great defeated a vastly larger Persian army at Gaugamela in 331 BC and effectively ended the Persian Empire.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-trafalgar-1805/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-trafalgar-1805/How Nelson's outnumbered fleet destroyed the combined French and Spanish navy at Trafalgar in 1805, securing British naval dominance.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/genghis-khan-mongol-conquests/https://warnation.com/articles/genghis-khan-mongol-conquests/How Genghis Khan built the largest contiguous land empire in history through speed, discipline, and a radically mobile army.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-stalingrad-1942-1943/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-stalingrad-1942-1943/How the brutal battle for Stalingrad in 1942-43 destroyed a German army and turned the tide of World War II in Europe.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-agincourt-1415/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-agincourt-1415/How a small, exhausted English army under Henry V destroyed a much larger French force at Agincourt in 1415.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-cannae-216-bc/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-cannae-216-bc/How Hannibal's double envelopment at Cannae in 216 BC destroyed a much larger Roman army and became history's model encirclement.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-waterloo-1815/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-waterloo-1815/How Wellington and Blücher defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, ending the Napoleonic Wars for good.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-gettysburg-1863/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-gettysburg-1863/How the three-day Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 broke Lee's invasion of the North and turned the tide of the American Civil War.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:07:49 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-hastings-1066/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-hastings-1066/How William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II at Hastings in 1066, ending Anglo-Saxon rule and transforming English history.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:14:10 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/sun-tzu-art-of-war-principles/https://warnation.com/articles/sun-tzu-art-of-war-principles/A breakdown of the core strategic principles in Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and why this 2,500-year-old text still shapes military and business strategy.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:14:10 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/fall-of-the-roman-empire/https://warnation.com/articles/fall-of-the-roman-empire/Explore the military and political decline that led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, from civil wars to barbarian invasions.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:14:10 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/d-day-normandy-invasion/https://warnation.com/articles/d-day-normandy-invasion/A look at the planning, landings, and lasting impact of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:14:10 GMThttps://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-thermopylae-300-spartans/https://warnation.com/articles/battle-of-thermopylae-300-spartans/How a small Greek force held off the Persian army at Thermopylae in 480 BC, and why the last stand of the 300 Spartans still resonates today.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:14:10 GMT