BO GOERGEN is a College junior studying political history and international relations. His email is rgoergen@sas.upenn.edu.

The Saudis are also new at this international diplomacy, and do not have a legacy of past failures or disappointments. That will change as long as the Saudis remain active in regional and global ...

The Cold War was a fertile period for designing and manufacturing new military tanks, and some companies really took big liberties with accepted design trends.

Unfortunately the Bundeswehr has come up short in the manpower department. While the German government supports and pays for rearmament, many military age German men are reluctant to commit. The ...

During the last great power naval conflict, the U.S. Navy learned the importance of battle damage repair for sustaining a ...

The guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald sits in Dry Dock 4 at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, for repairs and damage ...

October 1956 was the most intense day for air combat in the Suez Crisis. Both sides kept sending their fighter-bombers ...

The Suez Canal, one of the world’s most critical waterways, is responsible for 14% of global trade. It’s not only a masterpiece of engineering but also a structure of immense historical and political ...

Since it opened in 1869, Egypt’s Suez Canal has been a source of national pride and a focus of international conflict. It is one of the world’s great maritime shortcuts, connecting the Red and ...

Satellite imagery captured the British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales passing through Egypt's Suez Canal as it led a naval strike group on a mission to the western Pacific Ocean.

Mohammed Kazem, “Photographs with Flags.” (1997-2003). (Courtesy of the artist) ...

Triumphed in the 1980s as the largest vessel able to transit the Suez Canal fully laden, the 1990s have seen cargo movements of this type plummet sharply. A dearth of time charter interest in ...