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.
Are Americans Prepared to Fight a Nuclear War over Taiwan? "Iraq and Afghanistan were cakewalks compared to high-intensity war against the well-armed and highly motivated People's...
Can America Deter China's Anti-Navy? "The anti-navy concept is as old as warfare at sea when land-based powers attempted to negate the fleets of maritime rivals."
How the Army Made Me Choose Between My Mental Health and Our Family's Dream Posting "Without an EFMP overhaul, Mental Health Awareness Month will continue to be recognized as simple lip service for military...
Putin’s Got Nothing But Nuclear Weapons The war in Ukraine has not gone the way Kremlin decision-makers expected, and the international community has responded...
What to Do If You're Under Investigation in the Military In general, there are four main categories of military investigation: property damage or loss, illness/injury in the line of...
Why Putin's Eastern Blitz Is Failing The Russians are poor at urban warfare, and the Ukrainians, who excel at it, have again forced the Russians to think urban.
Billions Spent on Overseas Counterterrorism Would Be Better Spent by Involving Ex-Terrorists My research shows that international aid does not stop terrorists from carrying out violent acts.
Harriet Tubman and the Often Overlooked History of Her Civil War Military Raids Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less...
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.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
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...