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

In the face of the crushing onslaught of German Panzer power and their “Big Cats,” the United States took a gamble ...

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

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

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

In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...

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.

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.

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

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

A Putin ally has called for more detail in Trump's peace plan for Ukraine. Follow Newsweek's live coverage of the war.

A US peace plan drafted with Russian input has triggered a frantic European rearguard action not just to save Ukraine from a ...