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...
Why No One Could Capture the Experience of Junior Enlisted Marines Like 'Generation Kill' Author Evan Wright HBO's "Generation Kill" is probably the best show ever made about modern warfare told from the perspective of those who...
Navy SEAL Vet Jack Carr's First-Ever Nonfiction Book Traces the Roots of the Global War on Terror To this day, the barracks attack in Beirut remains the single greatest loss of life the Marine Corps has experienced since...
Troop Pay Safe After Congress Approves Extension of Government Funding Troop pay is no longer in jeopardy after Congress approved legislation to keep the government funded through mid-March and...
They Fought in Iraq’s Bloodiest Battle. Will Their Kids Be the Next Generation of Marines? No matter the profession, parents and children in both civilian and military families must navigate delicate decisions about...
14.5% Junior Enlisted Pay Raise, Restriction on Care for Transgender Military Kids Headed to Biden's Desk The 4.5% raise will be added to all service members' paychecks at the beginning of January, while the remaining 10% extra for...
Army Set to Debut Master Combat Badges in Spring, Memo Says The Army is set to begin awarding Master Combat Badges, which will combine expert and traditional combat badges, next spring...
Police Say Marine Charged with Escort's Murder Googled Whether It's Possible to Scream While Being Strangled In what a local official called a "chilling" case, an active-duty Marine stationed in Florida was arrested and charged with...