Japanese tanks during a live-fire exercise at the foot of Mount Fuji, August 22, 2019. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Japan built a large and capable armored force to counter the Soviets during the Cold ...

In a significant act of historical restitution, a rare World War II-era tank has been returned from Texas to Japan, bridging decades of wartime history. The National Museum of the Pacific War in ...

For all their firepower, defensive utility, and all-around menacing power on the battlefield, tanks have some debilitating weaknesses. For one thing, the maintenance and supplies required by a large ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Tactically, the battle highlighted the weaknesses of an infantry-centric army fighting a conventional battle against mechanized forces in open terrain. It also broke ...

Key Point: The battle led Japan to choose the Pacific option rather than Siberia, thus unleashing a war with America that doomed the Japanese Empire. This is a story of a battle that was, and a war ...