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The Army is overhauling how it fights in combat based on lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where drones have become the dominant weapon on the battlefield. The service is rethinking tank ...

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By Constant Méheut, Josh Holder and Olha Konovalova Wherever you go in Ukraine, army recruitment ads are impossible to miss. They loom from skyscraper billboards, plaster street corners and hang from ...

The 1944 Army-Navy game was dubbed the "game of the century" by some journalists. (Special Collections & Archives Department, Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy) By 1944 the United States had entered ...

Armored vehicles mobilize during a live-ammunition drill in Taiwan on July 14, 2025. Story This is how the war will start. During a highly charged presidential campaign, a bomb explodes, unleashing ...

Robert Frye standing in center with raised hand, Ensign Marshal Smith wearing military uniform standing on left, and Lieutenant Elmer Keckler standing on right, gathered in interior with recruitment ...

In this short, stimulating, and at times provocative book, Gat, a political scientist, addresses some of the biggest themes in military theory with both authority and elegance. He probes an important ...

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears its fourth year, more Ukrainian women are joining the war effort — thanks to modern warfare. More than 70,000 women are currently serving in Ukraine’s military in ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How ...