Russia’s method of grouping its soldiers into “battalion tactical groups” assumed that those soldiers would be better-trained than a potential adversary—an assumption that is clearly no longer the ...

For decades the battle of Prokhorovka was described as a decisive Soviet counterattack that shattered Germany’s elite SS Panzer divisions. But newly examined German records, aerial photographs and ...

From the streets of Kharkov to the killing fields of Normandy, the armored units of the Waffen-SS fought some of the most ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...

The Chinese are the only country to use water as weapon of war, an area of deep concern for India. They have been able to ...

Iran's dominance over the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway to its south, means that any enemy vessels in either the Gulf of Oman or the Persian Gulf may become sitting ducks. Some experts have warned that ...

Iranian state TV says Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor ...

Iran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard answers to the supreme leader, and now the younger Khamenei will have the ...

Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? In an interview with Jacobin contributing editor Bashir ...

Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine recently crossed the four-year mark. Throughout that time, one of the biggest questions has been: Is this what Russians want?