Admiral Nagumo’s carrier force (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu) got underway to provide carrier air support for the planned invasion of Midw...

The Washington Post printed an interesting opinion piece a couple of days ago by retired army colonel John Nagl, " Does Military Servi...

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, they achieved surprise by effective use of several techniques: 1. Failure to declare war in advance of th...

Rex Nutting, writing for Wall Street Journal's market watch , has this to say about growth in federal spending: "WASHINGTON (Marke...

As we draw close to Memorial Day, I thought I would offer a link to one of my posts from a year ago. Here . It occurred to me that our recol...

In case you missed it, there's a good report in today's PostPartisan (Washington Post on line) calling attention to a number of iss...

Good article today in the Washington Post about a restored John Huston documentary about "shell shock" and its treatment in World...

A year and a half after we invaded Iraq, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was asked by a soldier why troops have to poke through dumpsters to ...