America Needs Vets to Serve Again, This Time as Volunteer Poll Workers The COVID-19 pandemic sharply cut the number of volunteers from the traditional 60-and-older cohort.
Congress Can't Legislate an End to Veteran Suicide Data from the Department of Veterans Affairs suggests that 17 veterans a day take their own lives, or 6,205 per year.
Ukraine's Foreign Legion May Be New, But the Idea Isn't President Zelenskyy has set up the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine for those who wish to volunteer – including U.S...
NATO Should Think Twice Before Accepting Finland and Sweden "Finland and Sweden have long focused their militaries on defending their own territories, raising doubts about their value...
Washington Already Fought a Cold War with Beijing. It Was a Disaster "During the first 25 or so years of the Cold War, Asia represented a blood-soaked albatross for U.S. policymakers."
Using Robots to 'Grab the Russians by the Belt' "If Russian troops are already reluctant to go eyeball-to-eyeball with human Ukrainian assault troops, they are even less...
'Show' Trial of Foreign Fighters in Russian-Controlled Ukrainian Territory Could Be a War Crime "The sentencing to death of three foreign fighters captured by Russian troops and handed over to authorities in a breakaway...
Global Arms Industry Getting Shakeup by War in Ukraine -- and China and US Look Like Winners Russia’s war in Ukraine is upending the global arms industry.
The Navy Doesn't Let Junior Officers Command Early in Their Careers. It's a Problem. Most Navy officers do not have any command experience until they take over a destroyer, nuclear submarine or aircraft...
50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo of the Vietnam War It is one of those exceptional visual artifacts that draws attention and even controversy years after it was made.
Army Swiftly Backpedals on Policy Dropping High School Diploma Requirement The Army has swiftly reversed a new policy that would have allowed potential recruits to enlist into the force without a high...
They Graduated Space Force Boot Camp. What Comes Next for Them, and the Service, Is Less Clear. Space Force continues to carve out its own identity after being created in 2019.
World War II-Era Boat Emerges From Shrinking Lake Mead Around 1,500 “Higgins boats” were deployed at Normandy on D-Day.
How Do You Create a Guardian? A Look Inside Space Force's First Specialized Basic Training Over three months, Military.com interviewed more than a dozen Guardians, drill sergeants, recruiters and officers, and...
Mom ‘Horrified’ After Autopsy Shows Son’s Treatment During Navy SEAL ‘Hell Week’ Training Kyle Mullen died Feb. 4 after completing the grueling first phase of U.S. Navy SEAL training called “Hell Week.