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Son Tay Raid commander Leroy Manor dies at 100
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Leroy Manor served as a pilot in WWII and planned the Son Tay Raid in Vietnam. He died just four days after his 100th birthday.
By Harm Venhuizen
CIA’s black warfare and the Navy’s Operation Passage to Freedom
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.
By Marc D. Bernstein, HistoryNet
Op-Ed: US must win the race to develop hypersonic missiles
After leading the development of this technology area for decades, the U.S. finds itself behind and investing heavily in the technology to try to keep up.
By Iain Boyd, University of Michigan
After snuggling up to China, Duterte now talks of ‘suicide missions’ to protect island
The Philippine president often lashes out at ally United States while lavishing praise on Beijing and Moscow.
Authorities suspect this vessel trafficked oil to North Korea
The revelation comes amid growing concerns over wide-ranging efforts by Pyongyang to evade U.N. Security Council sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missiles program.
Manila protests ‘swarming’ Chinese boats near island
Chinese vessels have been sighted more than 600 times near Thitu so far this year, military officials said.
Babe Ruth in a kimono, a deadly Navy sub mishap and the art of baseball diplomacy
The role of baseball in Japanese-U.S. relations has a long and rich history.
By Steven Wisensale, University of Connecticut
Philippines frets about war at sea for US
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said a 1951 treaty with the US needed to be re-examined to clear ambiguities that could cause chaos and confusion during a crisis
Sweet 16 surprise: Teen gets restored Ford Bronco of his Marine father, killed in Fallujah in 2007
Triston Walsh was 4 years old when his father was killed in a 2007 sniper attack in Fallujah.
By Teri Maddox, Belleville News-Democrat via AP