Our most likely foe in the next war is Russia and if we do not increase our military numbers and adapt our tactics, techniques and procedures, they could indeed destroy one of the backbones of our ...
Calling the Sialkot sector offensive India’s largest armoured thrust since World War II is not hyperbole. It reflects the ...
In September 1944, a U.S. Army observation pilot faced advancing German Panther tanks with an aircraft never meant for combat ...
As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – and a century of armoured combat ...
The war in Ukraine has shown how vulnerable armored vehicles can be to attacks by cheap, expendable drones, threatening the tank’s century-long primacy on the battlefield.
The Battle of Kursk was the last major offensive the German army would see on the eastern front in WWII. Despite huge Soviet losses, their ability to replace men with ease, not to mention the power of ...
One of the most devastating wars in human history, World War II, had it ended differently, would have left the world’s landscape looking far different today. Thankfully, even with dozens of countries ...
War and Power Who Wins Wars―and Why by Phillips Payson O’Brien PublicAffairs, 276 pp., $30. WHY DO COUNTRIES WIN OR LOSE wars ...
By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to reload. Only the Marine ...
Despite claims of success in Ukraine, new CSIS data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains, ...
On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...
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Why Has the M1 Abrams Tank Lasted So Long?

Despite the Abrams tank’s advanced age and increasing vulnerability to threats such as drones, it has been kept relevant on the modern battlefield by repeated upgrades.