The news cycle seems to have some new story ever ten minutes of a billionaire tech genius doing something crazy. Jeff Bezos and his recent trip into space, Elon Musk and his exploits with Tesla, among others. …

I don’t think I’m breaking any new ground by saying that the last few years have been rough. Rougher than usual, for everyone. …

Few tales of corporate schadenfreude are more crushingly hilarious than that of Microsoft’s ill-fated motion control peripheral; Kinect. It’s been ten years since the reveal of the Kinect system, and three years since it was discontinued entirely. …

End of Rome The need for experienced soldiers did not die out with the Roman Empire. As imperial authority waned across the territories, wars became increasingly frequent in the resulting power vacuum left by Roman absence. By the late imperial era, when Emperor Theodosius I divided the vast and unwieldy empire into two…

What does North Carolina circa 2006 and the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt have in common? Both have played host to mercenaries, doing largely the same thing, millennia apart. Warfare has been a constant in our society ever since our shift from hunter-gatherers into sedimentary civilization. …

With more news of Disney’s live-action Mulan coming out over the last few months, I think it’d be a great time to go over the original animated film’s principle antagonists; the Huns. A Legacy of Annihilation The word “Hun” conjures up a very few specific images. A fearsome warrior, a destroyer of anything in…

Its 1941, Europe has fallen under the brutish boot heel of Nazi tyranny. People are disappearing off the streets, Wehrmacht armies patrol the countryside, Kriegmarine ships terrorize the Atlantic and prevent the Allies from building up the strength to fight back. In the frigid seas near Norway, the Germans had…

Since its inception in 1783, the United States had been a primarily agricultural society. Large sectors of the economy were based heavily in the raising, harvesting and sale of a number of crops to parties both within and outside the country. Cotton, tobacco and wheat were chief among them, with…