It stops short of reintroducing conscription, though it leaves open the possibility of compulsory service for at least a ...

Deep in a remote German forest where intense fighting took place in the final months of World War II, a group of relic ...

Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for ...

What would happen if they threw a war and nobody came?” That rather naïve supposition was pondered on posters and t-shirts in ...

While the unions were still able to secure social concessions during the post-war economic boom, this is no longer possible ...

The potential military threat from Russia and the decreasing support from the US have European countries looking to conscript ...

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Friday approved the government’s plan to attract more military recruits as the country tries to boost the ranks of its armed forces in the face of rising concern ...

The war in Ukraine has pushed defence issues to the top of the agenda in Germany, where the federal government has confirmed ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow. By Christopher ...