By this point, Alexander’s prowess as a general and conqueror was well known. He was challenged or invited by the priests and leaders to attempt to untangle the Gordian knot. This complex knot ...

The word comes from an old myth in which Alexander the Great sliced through ... and experiment with national security. The Gordian Knot of Zero Day is a metaphor for a cyberattack that is ...

In Sunday’s Bee, Victor Davis Hanson compares Donald Trump with Alexander The Great, the ruler of the ancient world. He used his sword to slash the Gordian knot. But, the distortions of fact in ...

The best explanation of President Trump’s aggressive strategy can be found in ancient Greece. Like Alexander the Great, Mr. Trump is cutting the Gordian knot. According to legend, in Phrygia (in what ...

Alexander the Great, who famously decided that the impossibly complex original Gordian Knot could not be untied and cut the damned thing in half with his sword, would approve of the action behind ...