“For a house to be in unity, its members must agree. ABDA was never able to agree on strategy until it agreed the Netherlands East Indies was lost.”
– Lt. …
For all the fiery debates it launched in 2011, the U.S. military’s fiscal year 2012 budget achieved reality in anticlimactic form: part of the 1,200-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, finalized in …
Xavier Alvarez now says he was lying and wishes he hadn’t done it, but he insists he never committed a crime. In July 2007, speaking at a podium as an …
Mike Pickup is product manager at HESCO Bastion Ltd. During his 18 years of service in the British Army Royal Engineers, he deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Germany, Gibraltar, Falkland …
Charleston, S.C. was ensured a place in Civil War history when the first shots of the war were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12-13, 1861. From that moment the …
“Your leadership, especially under the peculiar conditions and difficulties of your authority and in a desperately critical situation, is a model for our army.”
—Army Chief of Staff Gen. George …
By 1945, Stars and Stripes cartoonist Sgt. Bill Mauldin was famous, and his creations, the G.I.s Willie and Joe, were popular with troops throughout the European Theater of Operations – …
“Another shell whined over my head and landed in the canyon on the Staniff place which is across the road from us.”
– Lawrence Wheeler, proprietor of Wheeler’s Inn
At …
The Department of Defense’s budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year, while including a 1.7 percent increase in basic pay for military personnel, contains several provisions that will also increase …
For those wondering what the administration’s Strategic Guidance document meant when it discussed a smaller and leaner force structure, the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request Overview released today added some …
