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[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] CRITICAL THINKING Ask students why they think the U.S., with the most powerful military in the world, and its allies, have not been able to totally subdue the […]

The Israelis were not happy last June when President Obama in his Cairo speech referred to 'the tensions fueled by colonialism' and promised a new beginning to relations between the [...]

Battle fatalities are way down in Iraq, thank goodness (though not in Afghanistan), but many U.S. troops are still passing away in 'noncombat' ways, via accidents, friendly fire, suicides and [...]

It was the kind of story that people in Chechnya know only too well. In the deep of night, Russian troops clad in camouflage uniforms and masks surrounded the village [...]

American troops are engaged in a bloody fight with al-Qaeda holdouts. Declarations of an American military victory in Afghanistan, such a prominent feature of political and diplomatic discourse in the [...]

DR. DANIEL R. MORTENSEN [*] ONE OF THE greatest battles of World War II, one occasionally considered a failure, is the escape of German army remnants through the Falaise gap [...]

One of the most vivid memories I have of my service in the U.S. Senate was of an early Democratic caucus. It was in January of 1973, not long after [...]

During the Vietnam War, about 66 percent of 58,220 troops who died were members of the Army. Marine Corps deaths were about 26 percent of the total. The Air Force [...]

About 90 percent of the more than 58,000 deaths during the Vietnam War occurred in the five-year period from 1966 through 1970. In 1968, the bloodiest year, 16,899 were killed. [...]

As the World War I centenary approaches, the Gallipoli campaign is in the spotlight, from a $2.8 million restoration of the shore bombardment ship HMS M33 by the National Museum [...]

* Feb. 8, 1875: Walter Reed (see P. 38) sits for the Army Medical Corps exam and is soon commissioned a first lieutenant. In 1900 the bacteriologist proves yellow fever [...]