The Marine Corps Needs to Recognize the Importance of Inspector-Instructors "The success or failure of a reserve unit is in no small part tied to the caliber of its Inspector-Instructor staff."
Strategic Lessons from the Hamas Attack that Surprised the Israeli Military "Successful strategic attacks do not just happen. They generally involve three key elements. All require months or years of...
Does This Truck Make My Shipment Look Big? How to Avoid Weight Fraud During a Military Move "Some moving companies that have been entrusted to move household goods for military members and their families have learned...
Why Military Education Isn't to Blame for Afghanistan and Iraq Purported failures in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan -- even the microcosm of Kabul -- are arguably symptoms of greater...
Why Our Generals Can't Think Having read Franklin Foer's account in the October issue of The Atlantic describing the disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan...
I Was Wounded in Iraq. Vets Like Me Aren't Getting Our Full Retirement Pay and Congress Won't Act. "Some 50,000 veterans who are medically retired from combat and have less than 20 years of service have been left behind by...
Innovation Overload: Army Units Are Drowning in Ideas Walk into the headquarters of any operational Army unit on any Army base in the United States, and you'll eventually bump...
House Republicans Are Ready to Shut Down the Government, Even Though It Will Hurt Veterans As we stare down the prospect of another government shutdown due to House Republican time-wasting, House Republicans continue...
Watch Out for Backroom Warmongers Urging NATO Entanglement in Ukraine Recent proposals encouraging initiatives to increase NATO membership for Eastern European nations are antagonistic, ill-timed...
The Hard Work of Identifying the Remains of Service Members Missing for Decades Must Continue "The DPAA continues to work on identifying the more than 81,000 personnel missing from World War II, the Korean War, the...
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...
