It's always September 19and the ghosts wanderas I stop to ponderthrough a fog screen. 19,000 young men deadbefore the silence came.Yank and Reb the Continue Reading
History
Nothing Interesting Ever Happens at Sheppard AFB
My initial active duty service with the USAF was from March 1980 to March 1984. During that time, other than Basic Training, I was assigned as an Continue Reading
LTC Harold Moore and Mission Command at Ia Drang Valley
by MSG Christopher McDougall, US Army Editor's Note: This article details the Battle of Ia Drang (Vietnam, 1965) which was depicted in the 2002 Continue Reading
The Enduring Legacy of the United States Disciplinary Barracks
by SGM Daniel L. Dodds, US ArmyThe views presented in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department Continue Reading
Nothing but Courage
Excerpted from NOTHING BUT COURAGE by James Donovan. To be published on May 27, 2025 by Dutton Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a Continue Reading
What Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War Can Teach Us About the Future of Military Conflict
Over 2,400 years ago, an Athenian general and historian named Thucydides chronicled a brutal, generation-defining conflict between Athens and Sparta. Continue Reading
Are We the Bad Guys?
by Nicholas Efstathiou I answer a lot of questions as a high school history teacher. This one, asked by one of my students, was difficult to Continue Reading
No Glory in Captivity: Remembering the Bataan Death March
"I don't think there's any glory in being a prisoner of war, and I'd made up my mind, when it looked desperate ...I told everybody: 'I'm not going to Continue Reading
Mission Command at the Chosin Reservoir
by Sergeant Major Daniel L. Dodds The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950, capturing the majority of South Korea, Continue Reading
How This U.S. Army Awards Clerk Received A Bronze Star
by C. B. Yarling After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin in 1968 with a B.A. in Math. I joined the Army because I was certain I Continue Reading
The Amphibious Assault at Inchon: Joint Operations that Changed the Korean War
by Sergeant Major Daniel L. Dodds Under the canopy of darkness in the early hours of 25 June 1950, the North Korean People's Army crossed the 38th Continue Reading
A Pilgrimage to Belleau Wood
I had been around our sun almost fifty times when 2023 rolled around. To celebrate this milestone, I wanted to head off to the southeast corner of the Continue Reading