Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
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Captive for 15 Months, WWII Veteran Returns to POW Camp
TYCHOWO, Poland - Eighty years after his liberation from a German prisoner of war camp, 101-year-old Lester F. Schrenk ...
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At 102, American WWII veteran returns to the Polish forest where he was once a POW
Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...
'The U.S. has betrayed Ukraine, betrayed our democracy - and the values of freedom', frontline soldiers tell DAVID PATRIKARAKOS
The sky is lost to Russian drones. Sometimes their buzzing sound gets so close that it seems almost to burrow into you.
Modern warfare structures and directions
From time to time the superstructure of tactics has to be altered or wholly torn down; but the old foundations of strategy so far remain, as though ...
Crucible of war: How Oct. 7 changed the lives of lone soldiers and ‘olim’
IDF lone soldiers and olim share stories with the Magazine about how October 7 and the Israel-Hamas War impacted their lives.
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'Say you want a revolution?': 250 years ago, 'The shot heard around the world' rang out
It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their ...
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Agathocles, the Tyrant Who Defended Syracuse by Taking the War to Africa, Invading and Besieging Carthage
The Sicilian Agathocles, a man not only of obscure but lowly and abject origins, became king of Syracuse. The son of a potter ...
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Vietnam veteran reflects on war time service, more than 50 years later
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - “I don’t want the interview today to be about me. I was a combat engineer, but I was not in the ...
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80 years ago, Patton’s Army rolled into what is now the largest US military community overseas
George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city ...
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The Global Reach of Colombia’s Private Security Firms
In response to violent drug gangs, Colombians have taken to employing private security who are trained to kill and outnumber ...
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The Life and Spirit of Bonnie Scot Hugh Mercer
Doctor, Jacobite and Brigadier General, Hugh Mercer was a great friend of George Washington. He fought the English and ...