U.S. Navy and Marine combat engineers are testing how to make fortifications that can protect against tiny, deadly ...

In a recent exercise, U.S. Marines and sailors worked with Latvian Army troops to clear woods and build a warren of trenches designed for drone warfare.

The trench shook. Soil fell from above. The sound of the explosion deafened us for several seconds. If you felt all of that, it means that this time you were lucky.

From 1951 until 1962, 100 above-ground nuclear tests were held at the facility. ... Los Angeles Times staff writer Gene Sherman joined soldiers in trenches two miles from ground zero for one test.

While the centennial was the main impetus for Above the Dreamless Dead, it also brought together many creators who know the war well.Pat Mills penned the World War I comics serial Charley's War ...

At the same time, armed drones, operated miles away from the trenches, dropped grenades. The sound of incoming and outgoing fire merged, making a chorus of battle between trench lines just 150 ...

Harvey Dunn's 1918 oil painting The Sentry shows a soldier coming up from the trenches. "You see in his eyes what would later become known as the thousand-yard stare," says exhibit curator Peter ...

B y late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would be "all over by Christmas," then it was clear they had been cruelly mistaken.

Marine trenches—long, V-shaped chasms slashed deep into the seafloor—are some of the most remote ocean habitats, ... thrive on dead organisms and particulate matter funneled down from above.

TIM MAK, BYLINE: Sometimes, it's the days where the weather stays slightly above freezing that are the worst. This region of Ukraine has this black, tarry, sticky mud, impossible to get off your ...

First Second has unveiled Above the Dreamless Dead, a graphic anthology of adaptations of World War I trench poetry. Chris Duffy served as editor on the book, which features the work of Pat Mills ...