The meeting was supposed to last 30 minutes. It lasted much longer, and by the time it was over, a decision had been made. One that would quietly determine which...
October 1, 2009. Changan Avenue, Beijing. 60 years to the day since the founding of the People’s Republic. Columns of armor roll east beneath Tanaman Gate in perfect formation. Engines...
February 25th, 2022. A bridge over the Urpin River northwest of Kiev. 80 Russian special police officers from Karovo Oblast are moving at speed. Three Kamaz 6×6 trucks. A Soviet...
1971, the Panhard factory, Avenue de Ivry, Paris. A squat slab-sided steel box rolls off the production line on four rubber tires. It weighs 6 tons. Its armor is 8...
March 25th, 2025. Nadia, Luhansk region, Eastern Ukraine. A British armored car rolls down a shell-pocked track, framed in drone camera footage that would circle the world within hours. Its...
December 17th, 1944. Bulingen, Belgium. The road was black with thawing slush, the ditches sealed in dirty ice, and the pine woods held the cold the way a church holds...
The North Sea, 14th November, 1942. A Bristol Beaufighter skims low over the gray water. Its twin Hercules engines producing a sound described by those who heard it as somewhere...
September 19th, 1944, a ridge they called Hill 246, just south of Resikul Lait in the Lraine region of eastern France. 7:45 in the morning, and First Lieutenant Edwin Liper...
1974, the Royal Ordnance Factory, Nottingham, England. A gun carriage rolls off the production line and onto a concrete apron. Six men wheel it into position. They lower the trail,...
Summer 2024, the Kupiansk axis, Kharkiv Oblast. A Ukrainian major with the call sign Achilles is showing Canadian journalists what his unit drives to the line. Major Yuri Fedorenko commands...