The tradition of naming tanks for American generals began not with the Americans themselves, but with the British.

In the early days of World War 2, the Germans hatched a master plan to take down the mighty French Army with breathtaking efficiency; dubbed Fall Gelb, or Case Yellow, it was a strategy that involved ...

President Vladimir Putin thanked the Russian army on Thursday after commanders told him that their forces had taken full ...

World War II ended generations ago, yet many of its weapons are still firing in today’s conflicts. Heavy machine guns, ...

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

Gilbert "Choc" Charleston, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was the last remaining member of the 739th Tank ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

What is the real issue with the Ajax programme, intended to produce a new fleet of armoured vehicles for the Army? It seems ...

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.

The Army’s special operations forces of the information war released a new recruiting ad, full of ghosts in the machine.

In modern warfare, tanks are no longer threatened only by other tanks. Today’s battlefields are shaped by a new generation of ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How ...