The vehicles we know today as tanks emerged on a grand scale at the beginning of the 20th century, right before the First World War. In 1900, Britain commissioned steam-engine manufacturer John Fowler ...

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

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Why Trooper Alec McKillop fired five shots at five German Panthers on June 14, 1944 — and destroyed them all[...] ...

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

By the end of 2024, all of that money was spent. Still, for quite a while it felt as if little was happening, due to a mix of bureaucratic inertia, a defense minister who wasn’t up to the job, some ...