Book Review – For Military Merit: Recipients of the Purple Heart
Special operations troops and military service members caught up in terrorist attacks are among more than one million Americans who’ve …
Conflicts & Operations
Helping Haiti
When a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti in January 2010, destroying its airport and harbor facilities, …
Interview With Anthony C. ‘Tony’ Zinni
Anthony C. “Tony” Zinni is the chairman of the board of directors of BAE Systems, Inc., the company’s wholly owned …
MH-53M Pave Low’s Farewell
The MH-53M Pave Low helicopters of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) flew their last missions supporting combat operations in …
ODA 3336 in the Shok Valley
In 1988, Demitri Zacharov was a 25-year-old soldier serving in a Soviet Motorized Rifle Regiment stationed on a small, gray …
Michael J. Durant Interview: Black Hawk Down
The Oct. 3 mission: Did you have a sense it was coming on before, prior to being briefed about it? …
Michael J. Durant Interview: The Night Stalkers
While Michael J. “Mike” Durant is probably not a household name around the world, he is an indelible symbol and …
NATO at the Crossroads
For nearly half a century, the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) stood ready to confront a massive air and …
Book Review – The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
In 1976, military analyst Edward Luttwak published The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: from the First Century AD to …
The U.S. Marines Pioneer Air Support in Nicaragua
What does Nicaragua mean to a Marine?
Plenty. Here, in 1928 and again in 1932, the most famous Marine of …