After the German army breaks through the French lines at Sedan, the left flank of the moving army has to be secured. The ...

May 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops. He spent the next two years in prison. In 1869, the "golden spike" was driven at ...

The Karl-Gerät, literally the Karl-Device, was one of Nazi Germany’s largest siege mortars, and one of the biggest mortars ever built. It is difficult to overstate both the Karl-Gerät’s size... Here’s ...

In 1940, France was considered the world’s premier military power—its army vast, its defenses seemingly unbreakable, and backed by Britain’s global empire. But in just 18 days, Germany’s armored ...

After the catastrophe on the Somme in 1917, General Ludendorff was persuaded by a group of his junior staff officers to withdraw to a line running north-south behind the Canal du Nord between the ...

For three-quarters of a century, through three wars and the twilight years of peace, tiny Alsace was a depressed no-man’s land between the guns of France and Germany. The province changed flags four ...

As any strategist knows, what one individual tries to defend, another individual will overcome and destroy; case in point, the “Maginot Line” over the United States or the “Golden Dome”. At one time, ...