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Army taps ‘Ghost Fleet’ authors to write novel on multi-domain warfare
The Army’s concept of future warfare is getting the Tom Clancy treatment.
By Hope Hodge Seck
Marine vet pens children’s book to help military families cope with deployment separation
"I Will Come Back" is for children experiencing the deployment of their parents.
By Lianna Brown
‘The Things They Carried’ author Tim O’Brien on his life’s work, trauma & confronting mortality
His final book is one he hopes will allow his children to hear their father’s voice in its pages long after he’s gone.
By J.D. Simkins
SEAL who oversaw Bin Laden raid pens children’s book ‘Skipper the Seal’
'Skipper the Seal' is slated for an Oct. 12 release.
By J.D. Simkins
War, heroism and sex: Pulp magazines & the messages they perpetuated
The periodicals oftentimes distorted what actual combat would be like for troops of the future.
By Todd South
Tom Clancy’s sprawling 537-acre estate sells for $4.9 million
The property is approximately 537 more than most of us have.
By J.D. Simkins
‘On War’ is now a children’s book featuring ‘Hare’ Clausewitz teaching woodland critters
The author cited "a long history in children’s literature of books that help children understand and process difficult realities."
By J.D. Simkins
1943 Superman comic pits the Man of Steel against the military’s arch nemesis: Jody
Fred Fore is a hopelessly idiotic and overly aggressive dolt in pursuit of Seaman Joe’s gal back home.
By J.D. Simkins
Whaling logs yield clues for modern-day climate studies
It's like the "Old Weather" online project, which employs citizen-scientists in reading digitized reproductions of whaling logs and Navy and Coast Guard ship logs to produce a database of Arctic weather in the 19th and 20th centuries.
By Doug Fraser, The Cape Cod Times
‘Ghost Fleet’ cemetery now a national sanctuary
Mallows Bay is known for its "Ghost Fleet," including partly submerged remains of more than 100 wooden steamships that were built in response to threats from World War I-era German U-boats.
Washington Nationals Major League Baseball player Sean Doolittle reads to military children
Doolittle read the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” to small children gathered on the carpet around his chair.
By Kristine Froeba