In 480 B.C., a powerful Persian armada attacked a Greek fleet at Salamis, an island off Athens. But the Greek city states set aside differences and banded together to repel the invaders in an epic ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: It appears wise to define a decisive victory more three-dimensionally than Clausewitz does, namely as a trial of arms that lets a belligerent accomplish some positive ...

Needless to say, drawing up a list like this one is tough. Many worthy candidates ended up on the cutting-room floor. China’s Ming Dynasty was born through inland naval warfare, at the Battle of Lake ...

The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by no means the end of the war, but it was the decisive battle that made ultimate victory likely, if not inevitable. The final land battle between ...

One of the submerged walls found in Ampelakia Bay Ministry of Culture and Sports/V. Mentoyannis In late 2016, a team of 20 researchers took a detailed look at Ampelakia Bay on the Greek Island of ...