WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Germany's politicians have demanded the modern German army, the Bundeswehr, be stripped of all German military traditions, not just those of the Nazi period, but this will only guarantee the army's failure in any time of battle and crisis.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Disney and Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer are working on a big-screen adaptation of Steven Pressfield's novel "Killing Rommel."

WASHINGTON, April 21 (UPI) -- When it comes to the evolution of weapons, designers make things bigger when they can't think of anything else to do with them.

BERLIN, March 14 (UPI) -- The legacy of Egypt's World War II invasion by Germany hampers the country's access to potentially vast energy resources.

WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- The history of procurement and upgrades of the M1 Abrams tank over the past 30 years reflects the changing perceptions of the use of tanks by the U.S. Army.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- It is extraordinary how often the obituary of the Main Battle Tank has been written in modern war over the past 60 years -- and how often it has been proven wrong.

UPI Almanac for Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Main battle tanks are not obsolete in war, so General Dynamics should keep making them.

STUTTGART, Germany, May 23 (UPI) -- A German documentary argues that battlefield genius Erwin Rommel and the North African campaign he waged were connected to the Holocaust.