How the Army’s first Hispanic 4-star distinguished himself in 2 wars
Gen. Richard Cavazos was a believer in the moral ascendency of leaders, achieved by earning the faith and trust of those he led.
By Jon Guttman
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College students charged in ‘Catch a Predator’ style ambush on soldier
Six Massachusetts students are accused of assaulting a soldier after luring him to campus as part of a TikTok trend.
By Todd South
McCain’s family fights to define legacy of civility, service
A year after McCain's death from brain cancer, the library is one way his family members are fighting to shape how the world remembers the Vietnam War hero and veteran senator and to prevent President Donald Trump from doing it for them.
Op-ed: How ‘warspeak’ puts us all in the trenches
An anthropologist takes aim at warspeak, a form of language that he contends has crept into most aspects of American life and public discourse.
By Robert Myers, Alfred University
Opinion: Democratic candidates are ignoring the 'Endless War’ beyond Afghanistan
Only one Democratic presidential candidate even superficially made the connection between Afghanistan and the war in other places. Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke said, “It is time to bring those service members back home from Afghanistan but also from Iraq, also from Yemen and Somalia and Libya and Syria. There is no reason for us to be at work all over the world tonight.”
By Stephanie Savell
Texas university to build $130M complex to test Army’s combat tech
The complex is to include a kilometer-long tunnel that will make Texas A&M Engineering “the hypersonics research capital of the country,” according to the school's vice chancellor and dean of engineering.
By Kelsey Reichmann
Research finds veterans earn more than non-veterans
Veterans, on average, earn $5 an hour more than civilians who never served in the military, a new study shows.
By Brian Mackley
Insomnia in the military is up 650 percent since 2003 — here’s how DoD is hoping to curb that trend
Solutions to the alarming trend have proved elusive.
By J.D. Simkins
Hecker nominated to lead Air University
The president has nominated Air Force Maj. Gen. James Hecker as the new commander and president of Air University.
By Kent Miller
So who really owns the Moon?
On July 20, 1969, America's Apollo 11 landed on the moon, making history as the first humans set foot on another world.
By Frans von der Dunk, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
These Moon-landing innovations changed life on Earth
We can only wonder what innovations from the effort to send people to other planets will affect earthlings 50 years after the first Marswalk.
By Jean Creighton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Judge allows racist FB page as evidence in fatal stabbing of newly commissioned 2nd lieutenant
Racist memes on a cellphone and a racist Facebook page can be used as evidence in the trial of a white man charged with murder and a hate crime in a black student’s fatal stabbing on the University of Maryland’s campus, a judge ruled Wednesday.
By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press