Toward a broader vision of military history. Military history has already come a long way, and those who disparage the field from ignorance are, for all their pretensions, graceless and Neanderthal.
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Reprinted with permission of World War II Magazine
In January 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second term in office is a year from expiration. While there is no constitutional prohibition against seeking a third term — and will not be...
An interview with retired Maj. Gen. Sid Shachnow, in the December 4 ThePilot.com, an online newspaper serving the area around Southern Pines, North Carolina. General Shachnow has a good, measured take on the situation in Afghanistan and the Obama...
Experienced strategic thinkers all pretty much accept a common truth: that in wars where mass politics is a factor, national will is crucial.
I’ve seen national will defined as “popular dedication to the nation and support for its policies, even when...
View From West Point: We Are Not The Enemy
by Ben Salvito
Ben Salvito is a cadet at West Point and is majoring in International Law. He will graduate in May 2010 as an aviator. In this op/ed he responds to the blowhard Chris Matthews, who in the wake...
From the U.S. Army War College Memorial Chapel Bulletin, 29 November 2009:
Due to security restrictions, Walter Reed Army Medical Center cannot accept generic mail addressed to “A Recovering Soldier” or “Any Soldier.” In past years, hundreds of cards...
