3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (596+ words) From landing behind enemy lines just before D-Day to protecting the first group of Black students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, the 101st Airborne has taken part in many of the most consequential interventions both at home…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (113+ words) The action that led to the Medal of Honor has become one of the most studied episodes in Marine Corps history. On Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972, then-Maj. John Ripley'was serving as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Marine Corps near Dong…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago  (452+ words) DDG-57 departed Naval Station Norfolk on July 25, 2025, and spent a total of 327 days at sea. "Team Mitscher continues to take great pride in service to our nation," said Cmdr. Stephen Prugh, commanding officer of DDG-57, in a U. S. Navy press release....

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (156+ words) There were a few conservative realists who, to their credit, opposed the Vietnam War early on for practical, not ideological, reasons. - Harry Morgenthau - Walter Lippmann - George F. Kennan The United States, Lippmann wrote, was not a "global fire department appointed to…...