War

"Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people.” 

"After a certain point in time, it will actually become destructive to them."

“His story is so much the story of Afghanistan: youth destroyed violently while fighting for a better home."

The U.S military and the Taliban have been in peace talks recently. The two sides signed a withdrawal agreement on...

"The Army is an all-volunteer force. We want to do this. You pay your taxes and we get to do this."

The Philadelphia chapter of a leading Muslim civil rights group is urging the U.S. Army War College to reconsider an upcoming lecture by an Islamic history scholar over his "simplistic, inaccurate and often prejudicial view of the long history of Muslim-West relations"

His comments came as two U.S. government sources said the United States strongly suspects Shi'ite militias with ties to, and possibly encouragement from, Iran fired a rocket on Sunday into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.

How do military leaders come up with these? In the case of the U.S., military commands are assigned blocks of the alphabet, say from AA to AD, from which they can choose two word names

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has presented an updated military plan to President Donald Trump's administration that envisions sending up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, the New York Times reported on Monday.

"There clearly are threats out there."

'The Many Faces of War' is a well-researched, creative, historical, mythological and academic look at war, in the cold and often harsh light of trauma, damaged brains, mythology and a very broad sweep of literature

Tom note: Here is the fifth entry in our 10 Long March posts for 2018, the 6th most-read item of...

When looking at interstate wars, conflict between groups may actually be more about internal group dynamics than about the actions...

Editor’s note: The Long March will be closed for inventory the month of August. We regret any inconvenience this causes...

My earliest television memory other than my Saturday morning cartoon ritual was watching Operation Desert Storm occur live. And since...

Ryan Crocker and some other smart, experienced guys propose just that, to better coordinate low-level U.S. wars. In their short...

World War II is returning to the big screen; let’s be honest though, it never left. This time though, it’s...

The world is less peaceful than at any point in the past 10 years as the number of refugees worldwide...

In a 2015 U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center presentation for his book “Doughboys on the Great War: How American...

Alexis de Tocqueville rightly notes that democratic armies crave war; the draft must be reinstituted in America in order to...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in March 2016 and has been republished for the 20th anniversary of 'Saving Private...

Few pieces of gear are steeped in as much martial history as the KA-BAR Fighting Utility Knife — from stories...

From Peter Watanabe, a comment on the issue of some of today’s recent vets disliking cops: “31 year old Marine...

Gen. Frederick Kroesen commanded a rifle company in World War II, a battalion in Korea, and a brigade and a...

Editor's note: Carmen Gentile has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and been featured in the New York Times,...