'Kidnapped at Sea' Dispels the Old 'Sea Story' of a Black Sailor in the Confederate Navy “Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the...
Veterans Can Learn to Write Their Service Story as Part of This Publisher's Military Memoir Project There's a good chance that everyone who served in the military has their own personal story to tell.
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...
Here Are All the Units Now Deployed to the Border for Trump's Immigration Crackdown The bulk of deployed troops come from the Army, primarily military police, to enhance surveillance efforts and act as a...
Marine Corps Full Steam Ahead on Integrating Platoon-Level Drill Instructor Roles The depots currently have seven gender-integrated drill instructor teams at the platoon level, though that number can...
White House Funding Freeze Stokes Uncertainty for Military Families as Raft of Programs Under Review An announcement late Monday from the Office of Management and Budget panicked military family members who feared losing...
Watchdogs at Pentagon, VA Fired in Purge of Inspectors General Across Federal Government The move by Trump flouts a requirement that the president give Congress 30 days' notice before firing inspectors general.
Air Force Officer Who Advocated for Women in Leadership Roles Removed from Command Col. Julie Sposito-Salceies was relieved from the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam unit by Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of...