Geoffrey Wawro is the author of Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I. He is a professor of history and director of the Military History Center at the ...

The British 1st and 5th Divisions were about 3,600 men below establishment, owing to a shortage of infantry reinforcements. For this reason, they were to be used only in a holding role, and were not ...

The recent commemoration ceremonies in Britain and France on 1 July marked the 100th anniversary of the worst military disaster in British history. On that day in 1916, a large force of 13 British ...

FORT BLISS >> As part of a program to help strengthen the ties between the U.S. and British armies, the 1st Armored Division has a new senior leader who is a British one-star general. Brig. Gen.

The 1940 evacuation at Dunkirk — the subject of Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed new film — remains one of World War II’s most striking episodes. However, for many troops, Dunkirk was only the ...

Large reinforcements of British troops in north east India during 1943 prompted the Japanese to launch a pre-emptive offensive from Burma into the Indian province of Assam. The Japanese did not want ...

April 2 (UPI) --Warfighter 21-4, a corps-level combat exercise starting April 6, will involve U.S., French and British troops, a U.S. Army press release said this week. The 10-day exercise will ...

If one word has come to characterize the army that the Duke of Wellington led in the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo, that word is “infamous.” The description comes from the mouth ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- On Sept. 29, 1918, the New York National Guard Soldiers of the Army's 27th Infantry Division fought their way into the defensive works known as the Hindenburg Line. The attack did ...