UPI Almanac for Sunday, July 19, 2009.

WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Recent wars involving major powers over the past decade have usually pitted them against small or technologically limited opponents. Some of the lessons learned from these wars are extremely important, but others are misleading.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, May 16, 2009.

LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- A London publisher said a romance novella authored by French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte will be released for the first time in English.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- Look upon patterns of war in Europe as a recurring sine wave. They peak in the first half of every century, then things settle down for the second half of the century, then things heat up again.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- All of Martin van Creveld's books are worth reading, but a few are "big books," books so important that anyone interested in war must read them.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Nepal's newly elected prime minister will take his oath of office Monday, political leaders say.