The Swiss Guard was established by Pope Julius II in 1506. Here's what to know about the 500-year-old military body.

But the Swiss Armed Forces would almost certainly not last ... the Armed Forces’ budget too often revolve around the weapons, or the effectors, as they are called in the language of the arms ...

But beyond that, until this work first came out over 25 years ago, very little seems to have appeared in English on what the Swiss did during the war. The key to this story, of course, is the unique ...