An adapted excerpt from To the End of the Earth by John C. McManus All Image Credits: Penguin Random House In 1945, Tenth Army inelegantly Continue Reading
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A Vietnam Veteran Honors the Lives of the Fallen
by Michael Reagan On April 9, more than fifty years ago, I was on my way home from Vietnam. A Chinook picked me off the ground at the DMZ, under fire. Continue Reading
Book Review: A Series of Flashbacks: Darkness Within
by Tracie Sudermann ________________________ Using an autobiographical style for her first book, A Series of Flashbacks: Darkness Within, author Continue Reading
Marine Corps Vets and Social Workers Seeking Contributors for “In Their Words”
Marine Corps Vets and Social Workers Seeking Contributors for “In Their Words,” A Book Written By, With, and For the Military and Veteran Community on Continue Reading
Where Black Snowflakes Come From
by Ryan Stovall This month Havok has been kind enough to print three of my poems from my recently released collection, Black Snowflakes Smothering Continue Reading
Manhattan
by Ryan Stovall having shot children we return to too many faces shuffling sundown drenched streets brown black or Continue Reading
Debunking the Myth of the “Broken” Veteran
by Sean Parnell I am a U.S. Army combat veteran. In 2006-2007, my infantry platoon in Afghanistan regularly exchanged fire with Taliban fighters. We Continue Reading
On Grossman: How a Pseudoscientist Pushed Our Understanding of Killing Back 20 Years
by Seth Allard This first appeared in Hosanna Fukuzawa's blog on September 10, 2022. It is republished here with the author's Continue Reading
Total Resistance – When Your Government Goes to Hell
Imagine, you wake up one morning, turn on the coffee pot and look out your living room window. In the distance, you can see buildings ablaze, you can Continue Reading
The Death of a Civilian: The Day I Joined the Army
Note: The following is adapted from a chapter of Christopher Paul Meyer’s memoir, Icarus Falling: A True Story About the Broken Dreams, Broken Heart, Continue Reading
The Shot: The Harrowing Journey of a Marine in the War on Terror
by Bill Bee The following is an excerpt from USMC veteran author Bill Bee's book The Shot: The Harrowing Journey of a Marine in the War on Continue Reading
Practical Realism in an Unpredictable World: Machiavelli’s Treaties on Fortune
by an anonymous former Special Forces officer “…if times and affairs change, he is ruined if he does not change his course of action.” - Nicollo Continue Reading