Latest ""
Biden National Defense Strategy tackles China, Russia, nuke deterrence
The administration’s first National Defense Strategy highlights Beijing’s growing military strength.
North Korea seeks to produce material for nukes: UN experts
North Korea continued to develop nuclear and ballistic missile programs in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, U.N. experts said in a new report.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press
Naval Academy board chair calls to remove Confederate names from buildings
The names of two members of the Confederacy should be removed from buildings at the U.S. Naval Academy, the chairman of the academy’s Board of Visitors said Thursday.
Initial analysis of new sub-launched nuclear cruise missile coming ‘shortly’
For now, there are no major delays to nuclear warhead modernization programs, a Pentagon official says.
By Aaron Mehta
Ex-Green Beret flew on Venezuelan businessman’s plane before failed Maduro coup
A former Special Forces soldier and two former Green Beret buddies took a chartered flight from Miami on a plane owned by a Venezuelan businessman now at the center of multiple investigations.
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution Podcast, Episode 18: Psych Hub’s Keita Franklin
Keita Franklin is the chief clinical officer for Psych Hub, the world's largest online platform for digital education on mental health issues.
Op-ed: FDR’s Fireside Chat is a model for calm amid coronavirus pandemic
The author thinks Trump's address to the nation about COVID-19 flopped.
By Michael J. Socolow, University of Maine
Op-ed: Naming a future flattop after Doris Miller was right and just
Let's pay homage to a petty officer who represented our nation's values and aspirations.
By Capt. Lawrence Brennan (retired)
Stalin, FDR, Project Zebra and a crash everyone tried to pretend never happened
Back when the Navy ran a North Carolina Coast Guard station and the Soviets were our allies.
By Jeff Hampton, The Virginian-Pilot
Four days in December: Germany’s path to war with the US
Adolf Hitler and other German leaders so thoroughly expected the Reich to fight America that, after the initial delighted outburst, they gave Pearl Harbor scarcely a thought.
By Gerhard L. Weinberg, HistoryNet
Would a shark attack victim be eligible for the Purple Heart?
During World War II, many U.S. ships were sunk due to enemy action and sailors entered the water uninjured. Until the sharks arrived.
By Barbara Salazar Torreon, Congressional Research Service