Military History

To this day, the barracks attack in Beirut remains the single greatest loss of life the Marine Corps has experienced since...

Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls...

The whole episode was unjust, and none of the sailors received the legal due process they were owed, Navy Secretary Carlos...

When Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined on Feb. 16, 1943, she became the only American killed on a direct order from the...

Omar Bradley went from graduating 44th in his class at the U.S. Military Academy to becoming one of the Army's most...

Army planners thought they would be invading Lebanon. They didn't even know where Grenada was.

In 1942, Phil Bucklew and nine other naval warfare pioneers trained to perform amphibious assaults before the U.S. had any...

Air Force Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. is the founder and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, a veteran of three wars and the son...

Fred "Tiz" Morrison and William Goines were Black pioneers in naval special warfare and generally acknowledged to be the...

The Korean War -- often called "The Forgotten War" -- was one of the first major conflicts of the Cold War, representing the...