Introduced in 1967, the Stridsvagn 103 broke all conventions in tank design. With no turret and a fixed gun, this Cold War-era machine relied on hull movement for aiming. Sweden created it not as an ...

On November 17, 1969, détente began to bear fruit with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente ...

It's hard to fathom today that when war hit Europe in 1914 our military leaders were still unsure of the machine-gun's effectiveness and indeed its morality. They preferred to rely on tactics that ...