Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yeung. "Geography, Location, and Strategy." Special Issue on Geography, Location, and Strategy. Advances in ...

The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.

This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. America has had two great ages of exploration. The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas ...