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 ...

A U.S. Army soldier who earned the prestigious Medal of Honor during World War II has been accounted for more than eight ...

On the eve of America’s semiquincentennial, the U.S. Military Academy is honoring its forefathers as it faces off against the ...

Under the heat of a 1940 Chinese summer night, a covert team of Communist soldiers slid silently across the arduous terrain. Their daring objective was as dangerous as it was audacious: to sabotage ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

The British Army has paused the use of its Ajax armoured vehicles after approximately 30 soldiers became unwell from noise and vibration during a recent war game exercise on Salisbury Plain. Personnel ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii—Inside a mud-splattered tent, the Army’s vice chief and the commander of the 25th Infantry Division watched on two giant TV screens as the division attempted to repel an ...

A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had ...

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 ...

In a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv last week, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll delivered a grim assessment. Driscoll told his counterparts their troops faced a dire situation on the ...

The furor erupted as President Emmanuel Macron is expected to present a plan for paid, voluntary military service to bolster the armed forces against the threat from Russia. By Roger Cohen Reporting ...