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Peeping Sergeant 1st Class (First Class, Indeed)
Last week, the Army removed Sergeant First Class Michael McClendon from his assignment at the U.S. Military Academy for allegedly videoing female cadets at West...
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...
The Renewed American Militarism
Andrew J. Bacevich is one of the most provocative – as in thought-provoking – national-security writers out there today. Part of that stems from his background –...
Little Audience for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ in Pakistan
(ISLAMABAD) — Pakistan stars in "Zero Dark Thirty," from early scenes at a detention site to the dramatic closing minutes as Navy SEALs assault the hideout of...
West Point, Yesterday
The adjacent post deals with the West Point of tomorrow. But our comrades at LIFE have posted a wonderful photo essay on what being a cadet there was like in...
The Pied Piper of the Insurgency
Fred Kaplan's new book, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, dissects the past decade of American-waged battle to see...
Families Matter in Our Military. All Families.
West Point, the country’s oldest continuously-operated military post and home to the eldest of all American military academies, held two weddings last week. ...
Army v. Navy, Gangham Style
OK, West Point cadets – let’s admit it – the Annapolis middies have been wiping the gridiron with you in the annual Army-Navy football game every year since...
“Covert Combat Sex”
Laura Cannon a 2001 graduate of the US Military Academy who served in Iraq following the 2003 US invasion takes issue with the US military's General Order No 1...
The Rise and Fall of `General Peaches’
The call from one retired fourstar general to another was somber Justdeparted CIA chief Dave Petraeus’ voice – usually assertive buffed by optimism was lower...
The Mind of Petraeus: Why Cheaters Think They Won’t Get Caught
The doublethink behind understanding consequences and acting despite them
Captains Courageous
The two soldiers couldn’t have been more different. One was young and handsome enough to be known as “Captain Brad Pitt,” a 2007 West Point graduate trained to...
“I actually got the telegram from West Point on June 29th, 1970 that said simply: Congratulations, you are appointed to the West Point class of 1974. Be here at 08:00 on the 1st of July. Now frankly, I didn’t really want to go, but I decided to give it a try for the summer anyway at the request of my mother.”
– Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a commencement address to the 2012 graduates of his alma mater, John S. Burke Catholic...
Growing Up Patton
Just how heavy a rucksack is carrying the name Patton around on your back? Benjamin Patton, grandson of World War II’s legendary General George Patton, has sat...
Books Report: War Memoirs From the Bush Administration
Once government officials leave the stage, they often write memoirs in hopes of shaping how history will remember their tenure. Over at Small Wars Journal, Caleb...
What Obama Predicted about His Surge in Afghanistan
President Obama traveled to West Point 18 months ago to redefine the American strategy in Afghanistan and explain why he would dispatch an additional 30,000...
In Abbottabad
Omar Waraich explores bin Laden’s last haunt: The home where Bin Laden had been hiding since at least last summer is located in the Bilal Town neighborhood of...
The War Allied Ground Forces
"101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION" "ITS MISSION:" The 17,000 troops of the storied "Screaming Eagles" are scheduled to use their massive Apache helicopter firepower to...
Libya: The Case for U.S. Intervention
In a much discussed speech at West Point two weeks ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued that the U.S. should get out of the business of fighting the...
