This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government ... Rather like medieval knights, the Spartiates were a class of military professionals who lived most of their lives in communal barracks.

Spartan general Pausanias lived a life which encapsulated the Ancient Greek city state, killed by his own people for ...

The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.