#World War II

“Logistics is the lifeblood of any army. Cut the lines, and the war is lost,”—US General Omar Bradley once said during World War II. Now, as Russian Shahed drones begin targeting Ukrainian trains, Kyiv may be forced to revisit one of the war’s oldest rail defense ideas: the armored anti-air wagon.

When President John F. Kennedy stood in West Berlin in 1963 and declared “Ich bin ein Berliner,” his words rang out as a Cold War promise of protection. More than 60 years later, Berlin is again defined by sound—not speeches but sirens—as Europe rediscovers a warning system once thought obsolete.