Why the US Used Agent Orange in Vietnam and What Makes It So Deadly The United States military sprayed nearly 12,000 square miles of Vietnamese jungles with the chemical defoliant over a 10...
10 Legendary Heroes of the US Air Force The Air Force's roots are well over a hundred years old. Here are 10 men who became legends over the past century.
President Chester A. Arthur's Grandson Was a Vet Who Led the 1960s Countercultural Revolution President Chester A. Arthur did not have the good fortune to be memorable. His grandson, Chester Alan "Gavin" Arthur III, is...
What 'D-Day' Actually Stands For What the "D" in D-Day actually stands for has been a source of debate almost from the time that the Allies first landed on...
A Statue of Stalin Is Unveiled in the Moscow Subway as Russia Tries to Revive the Dictator's Legacy The statuewas installed at the Taganskaya station to mark the 90th anniversary of the Moscow Metro, the sprawling subway...
Ken Burns Reveals Why He Chose to Tell the Story of 'The American Revolution' Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because...
How Legendary Gen. John Pershing Fought a Racist Law ... and Won "As I have promised them protection, I very much desire to carry out my word."
Wreaths Across America: Honoring Fallen Service Members It happens each December: Volunteers and others place live wreaths on veterans’ gravesites in what has become a holiday...
The Medal of Honor Fraud Case that Took Stolen Valor to the Extreme H.L.I. Lordship Industries of Long Island, New York, admitted to selling unauthorized versions of the Medal of Honor, the...
Newsweek's 'Unconventional' Went Behind the Controls of the Soon-to-Be-Retired B-1 Bomber Before it gets retired and replaced by the upcoming B-21 Raider, Naveed Jamali, a former spy, Navy veteran, author and host...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
Troops Will Miss Paychecks Next Week Without Action on the Government Shutdown The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families, because those in uniform...
