This Veteran’s Day, as we remember those men and women we’ve sent into battle, we should also take a moment to remember the fateful decisions, sometimes tragically bad ones, our commanders made that ...

Autumn arrived late in Washington this year, along with a morbid acceptance that Donald Trump may well get his hands on the nuclear football. Nothing else Trump has said—about Muslims, women, ...

Wednesday marks 75 years since Japan’s devastating attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack immediately drew the U.S. into World War II, and within days, American ...

One of the most indelible photographs of Eisenhower is the one in March 1951 at his NATO headquarters in France. He had just been told by a reporter that President Truman had just dismissed General ...

It almost happened twice and is long overdue. It was time for General Douglas MacArthur to be awarded the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. Though not an actual Six Star General, the ...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said, "Old Soldiers never die" and nearly 70 years later his legacy lives on. His legacy continues in today's Army with Soldiers like Capt. Troy Catterton ...

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The month of Mars, 1935, could be set down positively last week by historians as the moment when the Great Powers frankly abandoned all the hopes and pretenses of the post-War peace period and openly ...

In the free-spoken, never-adjourned town meeting which the vast American democracy tries to resemble, one subject that had long been on people’s minds had never, until last week, been put squarely on ...