At first glance, the Bren looked wrong. Top-mounted magazine. Awkward profile. Slower rate of fire than its German rivals.

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 ...

As German armor lost its dominance, infantry units were forced to confront Allied tanks at close range. The answer was the ...

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 ...

Arms makers Rheinmetall and KNDS are set to earn billions of euros from an order for 200 tanks from the German military, adding to the windfall the companies are seeing as Europe steps up its defense ...