Hearts and minds? Overrated. If you want to run a successful counterinsurgency, it all starts with the person at the top.

Don Stivers is one of the American military's favorite artists. The Stars and Stripes newspaper called his prints "as much a mainstay in Army headquarters buildings as the smell of wax coming off their highly shined floors."

Lt. Thomas Norris had a dangerous mission to complete, and he had his pick of men to join him. He chose a 23 year old Navy SEAL named Michael Thornton.

During the war in the Pacific, when a submarine was destroyed, there wasn’t much hope for its crewmen. Of the fifty-two that were lost, only seven U.S. subs yielded prisoners of war for the Japanese, while the rest – with some 3,500 sailors in all – remain on what submariners call “eternal patrol”. ...

We Were Pirates is adapted from the colorful diaries and recollections of Robert Hunt, an enlisted man who served aboard the USS Tambor during World War II. The Tambor was one of the most storied submarines of the war, returning intact from thirteen patrols. ...

Once a club of sixteen nations, whose membership ruled nearly half the globe, they are now reduced to five; even as the economic crisis of 2008 offered what seemed like a golden opportunity to re-emerge, they didn’t make a peep.

Face down in a field of wheat, blood leaking from both sides of his body, John Nelson waited for what remained of his life. Above him, the hot summer air was split by German machine guns and artillery fire. All around him, the future was ending for the doughboys of Company D.

Army life involves more than two hundred years of tradition, rules, and regulations, and it offers long periods of monotony interspersed with moments of life or death. Soldiers get trained for it, but there’s no course that can prepare you for being an Army wife.