As German armor lost its dominance, infantry units were forced to confront Allied tanks at close range. The answer was the Panzerschreck, a powerful rocket launcher inspired by the American bazooka.

Germans say they want a powerful military and EU nuclear deterrent to replace US hegemony, discomfiting Russia.

On March 18, 1945, Army 1st Lt. Jack Lemaster Treadwell saw eight of his soldiers gunned down while assaulting a heavily fortified, seemingly impregnable section of the Siegfried Line near ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

On August 8, 1918, at the Battle of Amiens, the Canadian Corps spearheaded a revolutionary combined-arms assault using tanks, aircraft, surprise artillery fire, and rapid infantry advances, smashing ...