A bayonet stuck into paunchy Tom Shaw, genial Laborite War Secretary, would have to be fairly long to take effect. Up to last week British bayonets were 20 inches long, French & German about 15 inches ...

IN POLITICS, it is the fate of the paranoid not to realise when they are winning. That is the moral of Westminster's sulky reaction to a European Union Bill, due to be unveiled on November 11th. At ...

Warfare experts in the US are using a famous bayonet charge by British troops as an example of how to tackle insurgents. They were inspired by the heroic assault by 20 members of the 16th Air Assault ...

Is the bayonet an obsolete weapon? At the third and final presidential debate Monday night, Mitt Romney accused Barack Obama of reducing the number of ships in the U.S. Navy. President Obama responded ...