On the morning of August 29, 1940, amidst the ferocious Battle of Britain that roared in the skies, a select group of men, handpicked by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, boarded an ocean liner and ...

Initially designed as an anti-aircraft gun, the German Flak 18/88-millimeter cannon quickly evolved into one of the deadliest ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

Modern sniping didn’t come from a single rifle, rather, it was born from a wave of WW2-era innovations that redefined ...

Of course, only one film per year can reign supreme in the war genre, and it can be very hard to pick, especially considering all of the good stuff that's come out over the last 10 years. While it can ...

The bullpup-style SA80 service rifle has caused the British Army no small number of headaches—but it is unclear what other weapon it might choose instead.

Few scenarios scare pundits and policymakers as much as the prospect of nuclear proliferation. Russia’s willingness to dangle the threat of deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its war against ...

The Canadian military top brass recently signed off on a plan to create a 300,000-strong supplementary reserve.

Britain’s best fighter aircraft of the early part of World War 2, the Supermarine Spitfire, was closely matched to the German ...

MAINE, USA — Maine independent U.S. Senator Angus King is strongly criticizing President Donald Trump’s pending peace plan ...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818 ...

Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister leading up to World War II, has been ridiculed like few other leaders. He is ...