World War II accelerated weapons innovation at an unprecedented pace. As global conflict intensified, the United States rapidly expanded and refined its arsenal, adapting existing designs while ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

The History Channel has dropped the first look at its upcoming World War II documentary starring America’s favorite ...

World War II produced some of the most famous armored vehicles in military history. Tanks became a central part of how armies fought, and certain designs quickly gained reputations among soldiers who ...

From the Me 262 to late-war Spitfires and Mustangs, this list ranks WWII’s quickest combat-ready aircraft by top speed and ...

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for shielding more than 200 Jewish Americans in a German POW camp.

Arms makers Rheinmetall RHM-0.78%decrease; red down pointing triangle and KNDS are set to earn billions of euros from an order for 200 tanks from the German military, adding to the windfall the ...

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 ...

European nations are constructing a defensive wall along NATO's eastern frontier as Western intelligence agencies warn Russia could be militarily capable of attacking the alliance within five years.

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. This past ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow. By Christopher ...

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