The Rolls-Royce Merlin started off on paper as the PV-12, as in Privately Developed, but was later called Merlin in the Rolls ...

At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...

Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime minister Winston Churchill. It was not—but there is a connection.

As American forces entered Cologne in March 1945, a new Pershing tank rolled into combat for the first time. Hidden among the ...

In July 1943, Germany’s elite Panzer and Waffen SS units launched Operation Citadel to break Soviet defenses at Kursk. Instead, they drove straight into a massive fortified belt designed to stop them ...

Germany’s Leopard 2A8 tank is unlikely to live up to its promises—but its construction is at least a worthwhile investment in the country’s ailing defense industrial base.

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Britain’s best fighter aircraft of the early part of World War 2, the Supermarine Spitfire, was closely matched to the German ...

President Donald Trump's efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war closely mirrors the tactics he used to end two ...

NATO has for years deployed multinational forces in the Baltic states and Poland to deter Russian attacks on the eastern ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

The history of Koritsa and its first and second liberations in 1912 and 1914 respectively – The French betrayal – How it was finally incorporated into the Albanian state – The new liberation of ...