Aerial reconnaissance of the Spartan Brigade has recorded how the Russians send their wounded soldiers limping on homemade ...

Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

Forming this army of Brasideioi (“Brasidas’ men ... It certainly runs counter to the myth of the Spartan super-warrior who scoffed at soft power and prized victory in battle above all ...

Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest strengths was its citizens’ “contempt of pleasure.” ...

Then news reached him of an advancing Spartan army, forcing him to take to the field. Both sides had amassed huge armies. Almost every city in Greece had sent a contingent to support the effort ...

In history, few replies have ever carried as much weight, defiance, and wit as a single word once uttered by the Spartans: ...