"This is a story about a curious boy with no name — at least, no name that I ever came to know." Read Marine veteran and reporter James LaPorta's commentary about a harrowing moment when he was in Afghanistan.
Col. Edward Lansdale, chief of the CIA's Saigon Military Mission, was the genius cowboy who skirted the rules to achieve just goals; for others, he was the embodiment of an arrogant foreign policy gone dangerously wrong.
Beijing's first aircraft carrier will take part in a naval review Tuesday marking the People's Republic navy's 70th anniversary, joined by latest-generation nuclear submarines, destroyers and fighter jets.