France entered the Franco Prussian War confident and unprepared, while Prussia entered disciplined and ready. This episode follows Bismarck’s Ems Dispatch provocation and the rapid mobilization and ...

The Great War was the first truly industrialized war. We saw glimmers of things to come in the years before, with conflicts like the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. However, that paled ...

This video maps the entire Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, tracing the rapid German offensives that shattered the French armies and reshaped Europe. We follow each major campaign—from the border ...

This is the moment when total war meets the fog of war. Not in tiny steps but in one great leap, the United States has triggered, and itself soon will experience, a frightful period of total war that ...

The world that eventually emerges from that fog always is profoundly changed, with the international balance of power altered, sometimes with old alliances frayed and new ones created, and with new ...

Many nations, including Australia, claim to have a special relationship with the United States. Britain, and some in Europe, are finding out that's no longer the case.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A computer-generated visualisation shows how the Franco-German Future Combat Air System might look It was designed to be Europe’s ...

The development of sophisticated anti-missile and counter-drone platforms could reintroduce maneuver warfare to Ukraine—and modern war planning more generally.

Defence was long the laggard among Western European budgets. By the early 2010s, the “peace dividend” of the post–Cold War era had coupled with crushing austerity policies to take an especially heavy ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she does not agree with the German chancellor’s assessment of the influence of MAGA culture in Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that “the ...

Dassault Aviation's pugnacious chief executive Eric Trappier has raised the temperature in his ongoing war of words with Airbus, repeatedly insisting its supposed partner was jeopardising the Future ...

FCAS, which also involves Spain, is imploding at a high-stakes moment for Europe, as threat rises from Russia France and Germany’s plan to build a fighter jet of the future, planned to come with a ...