The Dig Hill 80 project revealed ... will see the reality of trench warfare on the ground," Stichelbaut adds. The region's waterlogged soil helps preserve organic materials like wood and textiles ...

Today’s engineers are applying that hard-earned relevance to modern doctrine. Using precision equipment, updated tactics, and threat-informed design, U.S. Navy Seabees, Marine Corps combat engineers, ...

“Your CQB [close-quarters battle] is violent, but nothing compares to trench warfare,” O’Leary told Task & Purpose. “Most of the enemy we’re fighting at like five meters or less distanc ...

Kramer Reporting from Pokrovsk, Ukraine Armies have been storming trench lines for more than a ... were crossing the muddy battlefields of World War I. Assaults can be stealthy and surgical ...

After weeks of digging, the area around the small town of Medvedivka, near a crossing to mainland Ukraine, is webbed with an elaborate trench system stretching several miles. The passages are cut ...

The brutal trench warfare-style fighting happening in eastern Ukraine is traumatizing soldiers. There are concerns in Ukraine about the psychological legacy it will leave behind. The brutal ...

It has been largely destroyed after months of fighting as both sides engage in trench warfare. 3 Oleksandr, 44, scans the sky for enemy drones. 6 Volodymyr shows the tiny dugout of several square ...