Facing collapse on two fronts, Nazi Germany launched a desperate surprise offensive through the Ardennes in December 1944. What followed was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by American forces ...

The United Nations as usual had their ears to the ground, hoping to hear shocks and tremors from the direction of Germany. The straining ears heard things which gave satisfaction. The Brüsseler ...

The Battle of Germany is one that Adolf Hitler didn’t plan. All the rest were his—Poland, Norway, France, the Atlantic, the Balkans, Russia; he had studied the maps and doped the strategy. But the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German army's battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and defence experts told Reuters. Even if a new government boosts ...

FILE - A view taken from a Cub artillery observation plane on July 10, 1945, shows vast areas of destruction in Berlin, after repeated Anglo-American air raids on the German capital. Seen on the left, ...

Friday's NATO meeting at Germany's Ramstein military base was one of the most eagerly awaited international meetings since the war in Ukraine began. International pressure had been building on German ...

Defence giants are drawing battle lines as Germany rearms, with the old guard arguing for traditional heavy weaponry while ...

Berlin- Poland will ask the German government for permission to supply German-made Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Monday, seemingly pushing his ...

When war broke out in September 1939, none of the combatants were prepared to fight in the way that they wanted. The British lacked the heavy bombers that interwar doctrine suggested that would be ...

Germany’s Leopard 2A8 tank is unlikely to live up to its promises—but its construction is at least a worthwhile investment in the country’s ailing defense industrial base.

People walk in front of the Reichtag Building, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied ...