America's Forgotten Doughboys: The 332nd Infantry Destroyed an Empire While millions of Americans can name Western Front battles like Belleau Wood or the Meuse-Argonne, almost no one remembers...
The Finnish Sniper Who Killed Over 500 Soviet Soldiers, the Most Confirmed Kills in Military History The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä...
The Battle of Kasserine Pass: The Humiliating WWII Defeat That Transformed the US Army The Battle of Kasserine Pass was America's first major fight against the European Axis in World War II. It turned into one of...
Supporters Press for a DC Memorial to Thomas Paine, Whose Writings Helped Fuel the Revolutionary War Jan. 10, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Paine's “Common Sense.”
Denmark Bled Alongside American Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Trump Won't Rule Out Taking Greenland From Them Denmark deployed soldiers to both Iraq and Afghanistan when America launched the Global War on Terrorism. Fifty of their...
The Biscari Massacre: Patton’s Soldiers Executed 73 Axis POWs, Then the Army Covered it Up The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly...
The Battle of Hamel: Australian Soldiers Taught American Doughboys to Fight Germans in WWI For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win...
The 1944 Air Battle Over Niš: The Only Direct Combat Between American and Soviet Forces in WWII On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World...
How the Physician Assistant Field Arose from Military Medicine Every physician assistant practicing today owes the profession's existence to combat medics and Navy corpsmen who proved that...
The Korean Battle for Outpost Vegas: 1,000 Casualties, Two Medals of Honor, One Four-Legged Hero By late March of 1953, the Korean War remained mostly static as peace negotiations went back and forth. U.N. and communist...
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.
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...
Troops Will Miss Paychecks Next Week Without Action on the Government Shutdown The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families, because those in uniform...
