Sieges were the neutron bombs of ancient warfare—a total concentration of military force on a fixed defensive, usually civilian, position. Whenever a city retreated behind its walls and a standoff loomed, the attacking army surrounded it and cut...

A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege...

Interest has been renewed in a medieval war weapon called a trebuchet for a number of reasons, including the educating of young mechanical engineering students at the US Military Academy in West Point, NY. Warfare weapons seem to get more sophisticated with each generation,...

Reports that AP Engines Inc. has exited the cable provisioning business may be exaggerated, but things do appear to be changing at the Maynard, Mass. company. Co-founder, president and CEO Jonathan Sieg has left to pursue other interests, according to fellow co-founder...

This is an essay about catapults, belfries, and battering rams in the middle ages.