Most history books claim the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD. They are wrong. Less than sixty years after the “fall,” a single man nearly put the pieces back together. Flavius Belisarius was the primary ...

In the closing months of World War II, the skies over the Pacific were a source of constant anxiety. The Japanese had unleashed a desperate new weapon: the Fu-Go balloon bomb. These high-altitude, ...

The logic was simple: wheels that high could theoretically roll over the deep trenches and cratered landscapes of no-man’s-land. On paper, the Tsar Tank was an unstoppable juggernaut. In reality, it ...

Today, the People’s Liberation Army is widely viewed as a force on the rise—larger, more technologically advanced, and increasingly central to global military calculations. Discussions about whether ...

The US Army has begun fielding its replacement for the 1990s-era M4 Carbine, marking a major step in the evolution of infantry weaponry. Developed under the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) Program ...

When it comes to strategic airlift operations, the US Air Force has two aces up its sleeve: the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy and the Boeing (formerly McDonnell Douglas) C-17 Globemaster III. While they might ...

When you think of post-war rifles that have stood the test of time, the Heckler & Koch G3 immediately comes to mind. Featuring a design that incorporated World War II-era developments with Cold ...

Herbert Sobel was born on January 26, 1912, in Chicago Illinois to a Jewish family. He got his start in the military early on as a student at the Culver Military Academy in Indiana, after which he ...

In 1950, just five years after the conclusion of the Second World War, a request was issued to Soviet aircraft manufacturers for a new bomber. Along with the ability to carry upwards of 24,000 pounds ...

The Vietnam War was arguably the most controversial conflict of the 20th century. One of the most contentious aspects of the war was the Phoenix Program, a US counterinsurgency effort that aimed to ...

The United States Rifle, Caliber .30-06, Model 1903 – commonly known as the M1903 Springfield – was a rifle used primarily by the US military. The standard US service rifle between 1903-36, it was ...

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union took several measures to get American warships out of its territorial waters – this including playing an old-fashioned game of bumper cars. Known as the “Black Sea ...