‘The Six Triple Eight’ Is a Powerful Tribute to the Army’s First All-Black, All-Woman Battalion The ugly job of sorting mail was meant to demean the women of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion during World War II...
The Little-Known War Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Songs Criscrossing decades, continents and conflict, we’ve collected some of the most intriguing stories behind a variety of...
160 Years Later, Descendants of Army's Sand Creek Massacre Still Wait for Justice Friday, Nov. 29, marks 160 years since the Sand Creek bloodshed, and the pain of the tragedy still haunts descendants of...
A US Sailor Showed Japan How to Attack Pearl Harbor American admirals first showed how vulnerable Pearl Harbor was, nine years before the United States entered World War II.
Boiled Eagles, US Military Victories and the Real History of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving has never been what your fifth-grade teacher made it out to be.
The Best Real-Life Military Leaders in the ‘Gladiator’ Movies, Ranked Ridley Scott’s two “Gladiator” movies aren’t exactly real history, but they are based on real history.
The CIA's 'Heart Attack Gun': A Cold War Weapon for Targeted Assassinations Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps...
On Veterans Day, Harriet Tubman Gets Formal Recognition of Her Military Service In addition to her work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, Tubman headed reconnaissance parties and...
Why a British Field Marshal and 74 Other Foreign Nationals Are Buried in Arlington National Cemetery When John Dill died on Nov. 4, 1944, it shook the upper echelons of the United States military, right up through Army Chief...
What Happened to the Original Tun Tavern, Birthplace of the Marine Corps The original Tun Tavern in Philadelphia was the birthplace of the Marine Corps and was almost as old as the city itself.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
