Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

Introduced in the late 1930s, the Panzer III was Germany’s first true battle tank and became the cornerstone of their early ...

This attack was Adolf Hitler’s last attempt to turn World War II in his favor following the Allied D-Day invasion in June ...

The pilots were part of the Berlin Airlift bringing lifesaving supplies into West Berlin, which had been blockaded by the ...

Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks.

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...

In 2026, the very definition of the collective West will change after Washington’s withdrawal from the “global policeman’s” ...

Prologue On December 20, 2025, the European Union (EU) almost crossed the Rubicon. It tried seizing Russian financial assets in Belgium for funding and ...

Eighty years ago, the world won a great victory in the war against fascism. At the cost of tens of millions of lives, ...

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...