Book Review – Civil War Battlegrounds: The Illustrated History of the War’s Pivotal Battles and Campaigns
As a self-diagnosed Civil War buff, the barrage of news books set to coincide with the ongoing Civil War Sesquicentennial …
Defense Wide
Hockey Saves: Thanking Soldiers With Hockey
A game of hockey doesn’t seem like the place to find peace from the everyday stresses of being a soldier, …
Axis POWs in America
When Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki awoke on Waimanalo Beach on Oahu on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, the exhausted survivor …
Book Review – Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Americans love their troops, so long as the troops are someone else’s sons and daughters.
Americans were eager to respond …
The Yom Kippur War: 40th Anniversary in Photos
The war fought between the forces of Egypt and Syria against Israel from Oct. 6 to Oct. 25, 1973 has …
Memories of Tom Clancy
I had not taken my first sip of coffee Wednesday morning when the phone call came telling me of the …
Navy Yard Shootings: Are We Seeking the Right Answers?
He had mental and emotional issues that were important enough to require occasional help from a psychiatrist.
He owned guns, …
MacArthur For President
In his autobiography Reminiscences, Douglas MacArthur wrote of his relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt, “In my own case, whatever differences …
The Syria Strike and the Three Bears
The on-again, off-again U.S. military strike on Syria – widely assumed to be an attack using cruise missiles launched from …
America’s Mustard Gas Experiments and World War II
Exposure to harmful chemicals has long been associated with modern warfare. During the last century, World War I was notable …