The American Army that landed in Normandy in June 1944 was by almost every measure that military planners used to assess fighting power the most lavishly equipped force in the...
1997, a testing ground outside Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Central Japan. A vehicle rolls off a concrete apron and onto a dirt track. It is small, barely the footprint of...
May 1982, East Falkland, a frozen, wind-hammered stretch of peat bog 8,000 mi from Britain, where the ground is so soft that a loaded Land Rover sinks to its axles...
April 2024. A secured military facility somewhere in central Ukraine. Its location classified. Its perimeter guarded by soldiers who do not speak to cameras. Colonel General Alexander Serski, commander and...
A 21-year-old lieutenant lies in a shallow scrape on top of a hill in Normandy, holding a radio handset against his ear and trying to keep his voice steady. It...
He’s behind cover at 10,000 ft, lungs burning in thin air, and the man he needs to kill is 500 m away. The M4 in his hands was built for...
He is already inside his firing solution when the tracers come. Not one stream, four. They cross from the tail position and both waist windows of three different fortresses at...
2001, a gated compound at Dunkeswell Aerodrome, a former Royal Navy air station buried deep in the Devon countryside. A machine rolls out of a low industrial building on six...
On the night of September 17th, 1944, a German Fallschirmjäger officer commanding a battalion south of Arnhem pressed his ear to the field telephone and listened to a report that...
1963, the GKN Sankey factory, Hadley Castle Works, Telford, Shropshire. A tracked vehicle rolls off the production line and onto a rain-slicked test yard. It is 15 tons of welded...