Category: Military History

Nuclear weapons experts and analysts set themselves in a tizzy last week after NBC News reported President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a tenfold increase in America’s nuclear arsenal. Trump and Defense Secretary James Mattis strenuously denied the story, the NBC reporters stood by it and that’s pretty much where it landed. But amid the flurry, the following […]

Specialist Five James McCloughan’s Medal of Honor citation, like all Medal of Honor citations, will drop your jaw to the floor. A 23 year old combat medic in the middle of Vietnam, he braved heavy fire to move an injured casualty to safety and was wounded by shrapnel before saving two more. He went on […]

A 10th SFG(A) soldier crosses a frozen lake during cold weather mountain warfare training in Northwestern Colorado.   Image courtesy of USSOCOM on Twitter

London—Royal Marines break the speed march world record. A team of eight Royal Marine Commandos managed to cover the 26.2 miles distance in 4 hours 16 minutes and 43 seconds, breaking the previous record by two minutes.  Each man was carrying more than 40lbs.  And for the attempt to be valid, all the team members […]

On Thursday night, the American government released more than 2,800 documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination of American President John F. Kennedy.  These documents, which had been classified for the past 54 years, held the promise of revealing long withheld secrets about what served as perhaps the most historic American tragedy of the modern era […]

America’s military has a serious problem with a two-tiered justice system that destroys lance corporals and pardons the gross misconduct of general officers.  One doesn’t need to look any further than the Marine Corps for a long history of this. A fine example is General James “Hoss” Cartwright, a no-combat four star F-18 pilot that […]

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, part of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, hover while Army Rangers prepare to fast rope onto buildings during an exercise hosted by U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C., June 6, 2017. Special Operations Command photo by Michael Bottoms

We’re all familiar with that sense of relief you get at the end of another long day at work, when you can finally kick your boots off and unwind.  It’s that opportunity to blow off some steam that revitalizes us and gives us the energy, or just the emotional bandwidth, to slip those boots back […]

If you watch “Casablanca” and “Fury,” you’ll have two very different pictures of World War II. On top of the vastly different settings, everything from technology of filmmaking, to the tone of the film, to the style of acting, to the overall messages and themes–they’re all different. Much of this is simply due to different […]

There is no longer a question as to the guilt of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.  The soldier who chose to walk off his post in Afghanistan and was subsequently captured by Taliban forces he may have been seeking in 2009 chose to plead guilty to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy earlier this […]

An Army Ranger sniper sets up a shot during an exercise hosted by U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C., June 6, 2017. Special Operations Command photo by Michael Bottoms

Walking into a critic’s screening creates an unusual juxtaposition of feelings in the pit of your stomach. On the one hand, you’re acutely aware that you’re getting to see a movie months before its release, and as the theater staff usher you off to a screen with a form of pseudo secrecy, it’s easy to […]