‘We Were Behind Barbed Wire’: George Takei on Fighting for a Country That Imprisoned Their Families In a powerful new talk in Tokyo, Star Trek legend George Takei revisits his childhood behind barbed wire in U.S. World War II...
The Army Bombers That Attacked the Japanese Fleet and Helped Turn the Tide at Midway During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew...
Thanksgiving as a Strategic Military Tool Thanksgiving has always been more than a holiday for the U.S. military. From Lincoln’s wartime proclamation to modern...
America’s Secret WWII OSS Mission in Vietnam to Arm Ho Chi Minh Against Japan In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to...
The Only WWII Land Battle Fought on American Soil: The Forgotten Fight for Alaska When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat...
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Taps Into the Oldest Story Troops Know: Trying to Get Home After War Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey reimagines Homer’s epic as the ultimate post-deployment story: Matt Damon’s Odysseus fights...
From Pearl Harbor to Japan: How 25th Infantry Division Earned its 'Tropic Lightning' Name in WWII This newly organized unit soon became one of the war's most aggressive fighting forces. It was one of only two Army divisions...
Mississippi Delta Farmer's Wife Fell in Love With German POW and Helped Him Escape, Leading FBI on Chase A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World...
Task Force Smith: How the 24th Infantry Division Saved South Korea at the Start of the Korean War In July of 1950, the Korean War looked as if it was about to come to an unexpectantly quick conclusion. South Korean troops...
The WWII Mystery Behind the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles: Axis Planes, Aliens or Mass Hysteria? Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack...
The Recruiting Surge Was Engineered. Can It Last in a War with Iran? The military’s recruiting surge didn’t happen by accident. New programs drove gains, but as the war with Iran grows...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
Army Speeds AI Warfighting Push as US Troops are in Active Combat An Army test used AI tools to hit 15 targets in one hour, signaling a rapid shift in how battlefield decisions are made and...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
