Stoicism and Military Leadership: Why Calm Command Still Matters Stoic leadership has shaped commanders from Marcus Aurelius to Eisenhower and Nimitz, showing why calm judgment...
The Last US Cavalry Charge in History: 27 Troopers Routed Japanese Forces in the Philippines During WWII Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of...
How a B-52 Crash in Greenland Became One of the Cold War's Worst Nuclear Accidents At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a 160...
Operation Teardrop: The Secret Navy Mission to Stop German Submarines From Launching Rockets on New York City In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what...
Black Sunday Over Ploesti: WWII Mission Became the Costliest Air Raid in US History One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at...
The Battle of Carrizal: America's Worst Defeat in the Hunt for Pancho Villa Captain Charles T. Boyd knew his orders. General John J. Pershing had told him to avoid a fight. But on June 21, 1916...
Insurrection Act: How It's Been Used and What Trump Wants To Do With It Donald Trump would not be the first president to invoke the Insurrection Act, as he has threatened, so that he can send U.S...
Pearl Harbor's Forgotten 1944 Disaster Killed at Least 163 Men and Reformed Navy Safety Measures The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted...
The Battle of Chipyong-ni: When American and French Troops Halted the Chinese Advance in Korea The Eighth Army commander reversed the order after meeting General Douglas MacArthur. The ever-aggressive Ridgway saw an...
The US Army Once Deployed Bombers and 2,500 Troops to Crush 10,000 Armed Coal Miners in West Virginia The Battle of Blair Mountain wasn't just a labor dispute gone wrong. It was the moment the federal government deployed troops...
This Navy Dentist Engraved 'Remember Pearl Harbor' on Hideki Tojo's Dentures For roughly three months in 1946 and 1947, the man who approved the attack on Pearl Harbor walked around Sugamo Prison with...
Black History Month Turns 100 Black History Month highlights Black servicemembers whose courage shaped the military despite segregation and discrimination.
DoW Christian Service Draws Dozens of Complaints from Members, Contractors One contractor told Military.com that the email invite was "stark, depressing, almost threatening."
The Youngest American Killed in Vietnam Enlisted in the Marines at 14 PFC Dan Bullock became the youngest American service member killed in the Vietnam War after forging his birth certificate to...
Why You Didn’t Get the Job: Understanding How Companies Hire In today’s turbulent, unpredictable and frustrating hiring market, job-seekers are seemingly doing everything right and...