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I've now finished the other half of Thomas Ricks The General: American Military Command from World War II to Today , and I have a bit o...

Having spent four months as a cook at Fort Leonard Wood Mo in 1958, I feel comfortable pronouncing  on military matters (better qualified t...

Underbelly's Wichita correspondent, who doubles as military/defense analyst, meditates on the apparent source of a destabilizing tradit...

A  commenter at Bruce Bartlett's Facebook page reports that in 1932, at the time of the infamous "bonus march," it was still...

I've finished my audioread of Walter Borneman's The Admirals , thus further filling in the many gaps in knowledge from my childhood...

Governor Romney said in tonight's debate that we don't have the Navy we had in 1916.  President Obama said right, and we also have ...

All this military stuff: it's not that I'm so interested in military history per se --I'm no better at doping out a battle plan...

Tonight's trivia question: who was Xavier (Javier) Alvarez?* Ooh, memories are short. He's Mister "Stolen Valor:" the...

One more short book not to throw out : Glen Gray's  The Warriors  appears to persist in print, if just barely, but I suspect it wouldn...

Way back in my brief and derisory soldier days, I witnessed the phenom of a young man who somehow put a bayonet through his foot. They took...

The must-read daily newsletter of the American Bankruptcy Institute yesterday linked to this extraordinary piece about debt among the milita...

Underbelly’s Wichita bureau, doubling on the military beat, weighs in with a couple of points I hadn’t focused on yet: If the Shiites manag...