It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment. In episode 12 of “Victory at Sea,” the 1953 documentary series captured several ...

Germany’s laser system is roughly comparable to the United Kingdom’s “DragonFire” system, though both programs still have substantial technical challenges to overcome.

What's the reason Captain Krause keeps getting his crewmen's names wrong? The crew keeps referencing in the movie that he hasn't eaten or slept in days. He's getting their names wrong because he's ...

There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under ...

On 9 April 1940, the day that Denmark fell to the Nazi war machine, the Danish envoy to the United States, Henrik Kauffmann, ...

How the Guardian reported the US military presence and establishment of airbases in the former Danish colony and county ...

Employing a variety of air assets from 13 nations and seemingly striking targets with precision and impunity, NATO enjoyed overwhelming air superiority ...

In 1944, two British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officers, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Billy Moss, aided by local ...

The only time the United States can be said to have truly attempted a form of isolationism was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it dismantled most of its military capabilities and disengaged from global ...

September 1943. Italy had just signed an armistice with the Allies, but the German military wasn’t going to let them go ...

At the dawn of the First World War, few understood the full potential of submarines. That changed on a September morning in ...

The baby was found dead two months later after a whirlwind investigation involving many, many ransom notes and tens of ...