A Chinese Filmmaker Remembers Victims of a WWII Tragedy in 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' The sinking of the Lisbon Maru was a tragedy that got lost in the seemingly endless loss of life that was the Pacific Theater...
‘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...
The D-Day Veteran Who Escaped His Nursing Home to Revisit Normandy Is Getting a Second Movie Pierce Brosnan stars as 93-year-old Artie Crawford, a pensioner in Northern Ireland who requests to travel to Normandy for...
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.
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...
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...
Firings Begin at the Pentagon: Veterans, Civil Servants Caught in the Crosshairs At least 5,400 probationary employees were scheduled to lose their jobs in the first round of civilian personnel cuts at the...
83,000 VA Employees Slated to Be Fired This Year by Musk's DOGE, Memo Says If implemented, the layoffs would bring the department down to the level of employees it had before the PACT Act, the wide...
'Warheads on Foreheads': Top Leaders for Air Force, Space Force Leaning into Defense Secretary's Rhetoric Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin wanted to make it clear: The troops that he oversees will do whatever President...
Veterans Are Speaking Out on the Trump Administration's Plans to Cut the VA's Budget A handful of veterans are divided over the Trump administration's proposed cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Medal of Honor Recipient Who Took on 5 Tanks in the Philippines – and Won During World War II, Medal of Honor recipient Dirk Vlug destroyed five enemy tanks in just 30 minutes on Dec. 15, 1944, in...