The M50 Ontos: The Ugly Marine Corps Tank-Hunter That Helped Win the Battle of Hue By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it...
The Battle of Kasserine Pass: The Humiliating WWII Defeat That Transformed the US Army The Battle of Kasserine Pass was America's first major fight against the European Axis in World War II. It turned into one of...
Operation Cowboy: When U.S. Cavalry and Germans Fought Together in WWII to Save 1,200 Horses from the Soviets Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought...
The American Senator and Three Tanks That Took on Rommel Before Operation Torch In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed...
Why Japanese Tanks Were Doomed in the Pacific Theater Today, the Pacific remains a prominent strategic interest for the U.S. military, but the Marine Corps recently deactivated...
The Vietnam War’s Only Tank Battle: A Challenge for American Strategy American M48 Patton tanks fired back, and suddenly the defenders found themselves in the Vietnam War’s only tank-on-tank...
Taiwan's President Watches Live-Fire Drills with New US-Made Tanks Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te watched live-fire drills with U.S.-made Abrams M1A2T tanks Thursday, as part of major annual...
The Army Parade Poses Potential Pitfalls like a Tank Breakdown. Soldiers Say They're Prepared. Thousands of soldiers have descended upon Washington, D.C., from more than a dozen Army divisions across the force, and many...
Is the Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle Program Dead? So Much for Robot Tanks The Army is restructuring in a big way, and the vision for the future does not seem to include a Robotic Combat Vehicle. Here...
Army's M10 Booker Gets Nixed Leaving Question Mark for Future Infantry's Firepower The Army is canning the short-lived M10 Booker, an armored fighting vehicle, amid concerns over its deployability and...
‘High Stress, High Stakes’: Behind-The-Scenes Look at Super Bowl Flyover “Celebrating America 250 and Super Bowl 60, we wanted to go big and really have that majestical display of air power for...
Why Some Disabled Veterans Can't Get Both VA Disability and Military Retirement Pay Military service members planning medical retirement face a critical decision point at the 20-year mark.
Veteran Who Served for Both Japanese and US Forces Turns 100 "Mino" Ohye, who pulled off quite a rare feat during his military service, celebrated his 100 birthday on Thursday in West...
How Former SEAC Ramón Colón-López Is Redefining Leadership After Service After serving as the nation’s top enlisted leader, Ramón “CZ” Colón-López explains what real leadership requires—and why his...
This 20-Year-Old Sacrificed His Life and Became the First Black Marine Medal of Honor Recipient Every February, Black History Month shines a light on Americans whose contributions shaped the nation. One belongs to Pfc...