World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

As tank warfare evolved in 1944, two weapons defined the battlefield. Britain’s Sherman Firefly carried the hard-hitting 17 ...

Hidden under decades of overgrowth, a forgotten British wartime post emerges with tools, ammunition, and gear still scattered ...

A 23-year-old Canadian sniper wearing an eye patch walked into the Dutch city of Zwolle just after midnight on April 14, 1945 ...

A central Pennsylvania WWll veteran has joined the ranks of such notables as Gen. George Patton, President Dwight Eisenhower, ...

Guy Ritchie assembled an A-list cast for his WW2 film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is climbing the Starz Top ...

Defence giants are drawing battle lines as Germany rearms, with the old guard arguing for traditional heavy weaponry while ...

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius delivers a speech during a military ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

One of the most iconic sidearms ever made, the P08 Luger was a mainstay in the German army from before World War I until the end of World War II.

The military’s strike on drug boats has brought into light the need to define what a war crime is, as the standard of conduct ...