Throughout most of its nearly 250-year history, the United States has been involved in conflict somewhere on Earth. While US history frequently casts a positive light on the nation’s wars and other ...

“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected.” Paul Fussell’s line has been living rent-free in my subconscious for decades. It rises to the surface whenever the United States, ...

The United States too often suffers from historical amnesia and technological hubris. One striking example proves this point. Since World War II ended, America has lost every war it started. Yes, ...

This National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we honor every American service member who returned home after enduring the horrors of captivity by enemy forces during times of war. My ...

OPENING NOTEWilliam Butler Yeats’ chilling 1920 poem had a backdrop: World War I, the flu pandemic, the Russian Revolution and a sense of impending doom, an inflection point. The gyre is widening and ...