The Navy Doesn't Let Junior Officers Command Early in Their Careers. It's a Problem. Most Navy officers do not have any command experience until they take over a destroyer, nuclear submarine or aircraft...
50 Years After ‘Napalm Girl,’ Myths Distort the Reality Behind a Horrific Photo of the Vietnam War It is one of those exceptional visual artifacts that draws attention and even controversy years after it was made.
Are Americans Prepared to Fight a Nuclear War over Taiwan? "Iraq and Afghanistan were cakewalks compared to high-intensity war against the well-armed and highly motivated People's...
Can America Deter China's Anti-Navy? "The anti-navy concept is as old as warfare at sea when land-based powers attempted to negate the fleets of maritime rivals."
How the Army Made Me Choose Between My Mental Health and Our Family's Dream Posting "Without an EFMP overhaul, Mental Health Awareness Month will continue to be recognized as simple lip service for military...
Putin’s Got Nothing But Nuclear Weapons The war in Ukraine has not gone the way Kremlin decision-makers expected, and the international community has responded...
What to Do If You're Under Investigation in the Military In general, there are four main categories of military investigation: property damage or loss, illness/injury in the line of...
Why Putin's Eastern Blitz Is Failing The Russians are poor at urban warfare, and the Ukrainians, who excel at it, have again forced the Russians to think urban.
Billions Spent on Overseas Counterterrorism Would Be Better Spent by Involving Ex-Terrorists My research shows that international aid does not stop terrorists from carrying out violent acts.
Harriet Tubman and the Often Overlooked History of Her Civil War Military Raids Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Hegseth Wants 'Male Standard' for Combat Roles. Many Female Veterans Say That's Already the Case Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his...
The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’ Between all the martini-fueled hijinx and medical drama, “M*A*S*H” featured some pretty special military vehicles.
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded...
Airman Confronts and Shoots Armed Neighbor on Deadly Rampage, Iowa Officials Say Harrison Friar, a senior airman, was with his wife and children at their home in Glenwood on the evening of Aug. 6 when they...
![Former leader of Al Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiah Imron Baihaqi prays at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-05/AP%20Indonesia%20Radicals%20Reformed%201800x1200.jpg?itok=BMSiz7mo "In this June 2, 2016 photo, former leader of Al Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiah Imron Baihaqi, center, who is also known by his militant name "Abu Tholut," prays at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia has been struggling in its efforts to de-radicalize militants in prison, partly because the Islamic State group inspires them to hold to extremism. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)")
