The Best Military Books We Read in 2024 Just like last year, 2024 was a banner year for military books. They captured our attention, and who knows? They may just do...
Silence Was My Father’s Fortress. I Shared It for a Time Until Poetry Set Me Free. When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of...
'The Restless Wave': A Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander's Engrossing World War II Parable for Today's Great Power Conflict "The Restless Wave" came about because Stavridis' publisher approached him with the idea of writing the American version of...
US Scrambled to Urge Putin Not to Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine, Woodward Book Says Months into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the United States had intelligence pointing to “highly sensitive, credible conversations...
New Graphic Novel from 'Beavis and Butt-Head' Comic Artist Perfectly Captures What it Was Like to Be Drafted for the Vietnam War The graphic novel "Drafted" follows Rick Parker's Army journey, beginning with his high school graduation, getting drafted...
Air Force Veteran Cormac McCarthy's Post-Apocalyptic Epic 'The Road' Is Now a Graphic Novel Worthy of the Original A lot of military veterans talk about preparing for a post-apocalyptic world, but author Cormac McCarthy, whose work was...
'Tis Not Our War': Why Most Americans Dodged the Civil War Draft and Deserted the Union Army It's not hard to understand why so many Americans join the military during a time of crisis.
How Julia Child Helped the Navy Develop a Shark Repellent During World War II While Child was not one of the driving forces behind the U.S. Navy's quest to develop a shark repellent during World War II...
Why No One Could Capture the Experience of Junior Enlisted Marines Like 'Generation Kill' Author Evan Wright HBO's "Generation Kill" is probably the best show ever made about modern warfare told from the perspective of those who...
Navy SEAL Vet Jack Carr's First-Ever Nonfiction Book Traces the Roots of the Global War on Terror To this day, the barracks attack in Beirut remains the single greatest loss of life the Marine Corps has experienced since...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
Military Diversity Is Not the Problem "The main reason for concern about the U.S. military and its performance has to do with the variety of U.S. commitments and...
MacDill Airman Gets 5 Years Of Probation in 'Undead Apes' Blockchain Fraud U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced Devin Rhoden to five years’ probation, a reflection of Rhoden’s substantial...