November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme ...

The Battle of Tarawa was the opening campaign of the U.S. drive across the central Pacific during World War II.

During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew ...

BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed 10 Marines and wounded 11 others on a foot patrol near Fallujah, the U.S. military announced Friday. It was the deadliest attack against American troops in four months ...

While Venezuela's military resistance may not last long, instability risks long-term insurgency by loyalists, militias and ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.

Marine Corps combat veteran Steven M. Lipscomb lost his life, Nov. 8, while looking after the safety of his crew at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County, West Virginia. "All of West Virginia ...

Marine veteran Steven M. Lipscomb was overseeing a crew of 17 people at the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia when it ...

My colleague Roger Kaplan recently wrote an excellent review of the PBS documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which is an excellent description of the battles of Najaf and Fallujah during the Iraq war.

U.S. Marines fold a flag during a funeral ceremony in November 2008. (Cpl. Anthony Ortiz/U.S. Marine Corps) A Marine veteran who died of cancer on the eve of the Corps’ 250th birthday won his battle ...

Rettenberger — “Rett” to his men — was with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division, and just 24 years old when he led his squad of men still in their teens through the streets of the Iraqi ...

After Justin McLeese’s death, his mom, Sharon, worked on building a tomb in his hometown. She called it her “crazy grieving mother tomb” ...