Military

In 1783, Hamilton wrote as a Continental Congressman from New York to General Washington in his capacity as chairman of a committee formed by Congress to organize various departments in the government after the official peace at the end of the Revolution. Hamilton would like Washington's…

<p><span class="deck">The Corps is supposed to be tough, and is. This often confounds its enemies and sometimes irritates the nation’s other services</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Army newspapers in World Wars I and II were unofficial, informal, and more than the top brass could handle</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A PORTFOLIO OF AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Navy and contractor Smith accused each other of fraud. The Navy won—until the President took a hand</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> IMAGES OF SWEETHEARTS, WIVES, AND MOTHERS HAVE OFTER BEEN USED TO INSPIRE PATRIOTIC FERVOR</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> An American Success Story</span> </p>

<p>He was Irish, but with neither the proverbial charm nor the luck. Generals are not much known for the former quality, but the latter, as Napoleon suggested, is one no successful commander can be without. And John Sullivan was an officer whom luck simply passed by.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> An Interview With Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When the President fired the general, civilian control of the military faced its severest test in our history</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> … is more comfortable and safer than World War II’s “steel pot. ” The problem is that it looks just like the One Hitlers troops wore.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">How our wartime experience conquered a wide range of problems from hemorrhagic shock to yellow fever</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were <span class="typestyle"> really</span> high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war’s end, the hard-won compromises between soldiers and journalists may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Westmoreland and Sharon embarked on costly lawsuits to justify their battlefield judgments. They might have done much better to listen to Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">50 years ago, these rough-and-ready tin soldiers were sold from bins cheap and by the handful. Today, collectors are seeking them for their bright, simple vitality.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A former Department of Defense adviser—one of Robert S. McNamara’s Whiz Kids—explains why we tend to overestimate Russian strength, and why we underestimate what it will cost to defend ourselves.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Chaos and farce and catastrophe played a big part. But so did a few men of vision.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> You Asked for It</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A life-long student of military history and affairs says that nuclear weapons have made the idea of war absurd. And it is precisely when everyone agrees that war is absurd that one gets started.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Slam Marshall, who is regarded as one of our great military historians, looked into the heart of combat and discovered a mystery there that raised doubts about the fighting quality of U.S. troops. But one GI thought he was a liar…</span></p>

<p>“C<span class="body"><span class="body"><span class="pullquote odd">ombat fatigue</span></span></span>” a<span class="body"><span class="body"><span class="pullquote odd">nd </span></span></span>“post-Vietnam syndrome” lost ground to a more sophisticated understanding of the problem of PTSD.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The old Regular Army, part fairy tale and part dirty joke, was generally either ignored or disdained. But its people went about their work with a dogged humdrum gallantry, and when the storm broke, they helped save the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization, but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Though it appears to have sprung up overnight, the inspiration of free-spirited hackers, it in fact was born in Defense Department Cold War projects of the 1950s.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Women Airforce Service Pilots seemed strange and exotic to World War II America. In fact, not even the military could quite fiqure out what to do with them.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">After living through America’s worst defeat in World War II and the infamous death march, Army Private Ben Steele started drawing pictures of the experiences that haunted him.</span></p>

<p>He was a lieutenant in the Army of the United States: he saw no reason to sit in the back of the bus</p>

<p>U.S. military leaders drew up elaborate plans to invade Japan, with estimates of American casualties ranging as high as two to four million, given the terrible losses at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.</p>