The First World War saw the birth of anti‑tank warfare. German forces used modified field guns, early armor‑piercing ...

8. Chemical weapons were first used in WW1 Poison gas was seen as war crime, but using tear gas wasn't seen in the same way. The Germans first used the lethal gas in a chlorine. 9. The German strike ...

The use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Russian military had become "standardized and commonplace" in Ukraine, Dutch and German intelligence services found.

Gas terrified soldiers in WW1, but it killed comparatively few of them, at least on the Western Front. So why was it the one WW1 weapon to be banned?

Euro-Deterrence Revisited European leaders have discussed German participation in a nuclear Eurodeterrent since the early Cold War. Charles de Gaulle quashed a late 1950s plan that offered Italy and ...

The machine-gun, like other weapons of war, was designed to take lives. Its users on both sides in the First World War did their best to maximise its ability to do so.