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

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.-- ...

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 ...

There's a war going on right now in the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum in Springfield. But it's entirely safe to step inside its doors. The "war" is part of the largest museum display of toy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...