A defense overhaul in Germany aims to increase the number of active-duty forces to 260,000 troops by the mid-2030s.

The Bundeswehr will move away from rigid hardware quotas − the number of tanks, aircraft or ships − toward a flexible, ...

Germany announced its first stand-alone military strategy on Tuesday, intending to become the strongest “conventional army in ...

World War II was a period of rapid technological advancement, with every major military power racing to develop new weapons and tactics. Among them, Germany stood out for introducing a range of ...

April 22 (Reuters) - Rheinmetall has signed a framework agreement worth billions of euros to supply the German army with ...

The deployment, confirmed by German Army Inspector Lieutenant General Christian Freuding in an interview with Welt am Sonntag ...

BERLIN/PARIS, April 22 (Reuters) - Germany and France's defence ministers offered differing timelines on Wednesday for a ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) stand together before the ceremonial pledge in Beelitz city park. Jens ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...