Throughout history, military innovation has often pushed the boundaries of what society considers acceptable warfare. Some weapons proved so devastating or caused such horrific suffering that nations ...

The Vietnam War forced militaries to rethink doctrine around guerrilla warfare and jungle operations. Air mobility through helicopters like the UH-1 Huey created modern air assault doctrine and ...

The M1 Garand established semi-automatic rifles as the infantry standard and shaped modern assault doctrine. The StG 44 created the blueprint for modern assault rifles with its intermediate-caliber ...

In September 1943, the Italian battleship Roma was steaming toward Malta to surrender to the Allies when a pair of German Dornier Do 217 bombers appeared overhead. The planes released two Fritz X ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...

The Department of War expanding use of “directed energy weapons.” America, China, and Russia are all developing direct energy ...

If machines ever fight a war against humans, it’ll probably be fought with modern weapons of war — bullets, bombs, and perhaps plasma weapons a la “The Terminator” — in a conflict, the robots will ...