A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom campaigns.

When he left the U.S. Marine Corps after 27 years, 10 months and 10 days of service, retired Lt. Col. Donald Weill felt he had done his duty. But unlike Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur’s recollection of what ...

The craze for collecting toy soldiers began with the French in the 18th century. In this scene, British foot soldiers attack a French officer. Derek Workman Tucked away on a shelf in a salon of a 17th ...

Soldiers with the U.S. Army’s Experimentation Force, known as EXFOR, test miniature drones during an exercise March 4 at Fort Benning, Georgia. Photo by Matthew Cox/Military.com FORT BENNING, Ga.-- ...

Founded in 1952 by five men who collected toy soldiers, the Military Miniature Society of Illinois has grown into an international club that goes far beyond military figurines. Its 46th annual show ...

Nothing evokes lost childhood as vividly as glimpses of its toys. More than half a century ago, like most boys of my time, I spent hours with my nose pressed against the windows of toy shops, gazing ...

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A small group of Iraqis including a soldier who fought in the civil war have turned to model making to deal with their memories of conflict and maintain touch with the ...

Ten men wearing blue Civil War short coats and smocks stood at attention by a cannon, atop a mountain in Elkridge that overlooks the Patapsco River Valley and the old B&O; Railroad line. But the men ...

Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist states, and you might imagine a large broadside, ...