It's the tenth anniversary of the Gulf War. America certainly didn't lose, but what else do we know about it?
World War II is so difficult to get right on the screen. Here are some of the movies that do it best.
The general responsible for remaking the American Army in the aftermath of the Cold War knows a great deal of history, and it sustains him in a very tough job.
When Colin Powell noticed a couple of alleys named for the 9th and 10th Cavalries, he thought these black regiments deserved a better memorial
A memoir of the Second World War: Seeking the answer to a simple and terrible question: What was it like?
“Combat fatigue” and “post-Vietnam syndrome” lost ground to a more sophisticated understanding of the problem of PTSD.
Walt Whitman said, “The real war will never get in the books.” The critic and writer Paul Fussell feels that the same sanitizing of history that went on after the 1860s has erased the national memory of what World War II was really like.