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 ...

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

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

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 ...

It was a Sunday on 27th April 1941, when German troops entered Athens. The capital's residents remained stubbornly locked in ...

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 ...