Articles
Federal Probe Launched in NM-Texas Border Town
Residents of a small New Mexico border town woke to the sounds of helicopters, bangs and screaming as federal and local agents conducted an early morning sweep...
Two Years After bin Laden Raid, the Future of Special Operations
The raid that took out Osama bin Laden two years ago Wednesday was only a few minutes old when it nearly fell to pieces. We’ve all heard the story: one of the...
Japanese Invasion Fleet Heads For California — Then Where?
TOKYO – An unprecedented force of ships, troops and aircraft that Japan will send to southern California for amphibious warfare exercises next month represents...
Cramming for War With Petraeus
Army Major Kacie Lee flew UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as a platoon leader for the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul in 2003, in the first of her two deployments...
Freedom From Fear: Boston is Liberated As Suspect is Captured
“O happy town beside the sea,” philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called Boston, “whose roads lead everywhere to all.” Friday would have saddened him. Oliver...
Photo Essays
LIFE Behind the Picture: Larry Burrows’ ‘Reaching Out,’ 1966
In October 1966, on a mud-splattered hill just south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Vietnam, LIFE magazine’s Larry Burrows made a photograph that, for...
Violence Begets Violence
In the deadliest attacks in recent memory, Hamas suicide bombers takethe lives of 26 Israelis, prompting retaliatory airstrikes from Israelimilitary helicopters...
Time.com Specials
Gears of War: Inside America's Incredible Military Arsenal
From high-tech stealth bombers, to the latest night-vision rifles and assault helicopters, the U.S. armed forces have the most sophisticated military hardware in...
