How CIA and Special Forces Tested Counterinsurgency Strategy in Vietnam’s Central Highlands

In 1961, the CIA’s clandestine Combined Studies Group, along with U.S. Special Forces, began experimenting with a program to organize a group of Vietnam's Highland tribes known collectively as “Montagnards”

This German Aristocrat Beat a 12-Year Prison Sentence As A Nazi War Criminal

Alexander von Falkenhausen led Turks against the British, Chinese Nationalists against the Japanese, and conspired in Adolf Hitler’s assassination

Gangsters of the Sky: How a Captured Bombardier’s ‘Murder, Inc.’ Jacket Inspired a Failed Nazi Propaganda Campaign

Newspapers across Germany claimed that Lt. Kenneth Williams' flight jacket was "photo evidence for the underworld nature of [Allied] air terror"

Jo Mora: The Western Artist From Well South of the Border

Uruguayan-born Mora cowboyed, lived with the Hopis and captured the American West in paintings, sculpture and words

New Documentary Delves into the Japanese WWII Terror Weapon: The Fu-Go Balloon Bomb

Now streaming on Discovery+, “The Great Balloon Bomb Invasion” explores the history of the ingenious balloon bomb

Oldest US World War II Veteran Dies at 112 in New Orleans

“I would like to be remembered as a strong man,” said Lawrence Brooks, “A good soldier"

CIA’s Secrets in Laos Brought Into Light

Only recently have documents concerning the CIA’s behind-the-scenes espionage in Laos been declassified, which the author reveals in unprecedented detail

Yank Magazine Created A Unique Record of American Soldiers’ Roles in World War II

From June 1942 through 1945 frontline American soldiers filed stories and photographed World War II and its aftermath for a select readership—themselves

Meet the Tech Visionary Who Started the U.S. Air Force, Built Phone Networks, and Invented Muzak

In the early 1900s, George Owen Squier saw the future better than anyone else in the U.S. Army

Army Pilot Recalls Fights in Vietnam—and With Pentagon

In 2008, Tallon was finally awarded a Purple Heart, which he had not received because his plane’s crash was officially characterized as a “non-hostile” accident

Betty White, Former Member of the American Women’s Voluntary Services and Legendary Comedian, Dies at 99

Actress Betty White, who lit up the silver screen for nine decades, died Friday

Hats off to Tom Hirt

The craftsman keeps Old West hat making alive—and not just in movies

Horrors Spawned More Horrors When American Troops Entered Dachau

Was the execution of German guards at the infamous concentration camp a war crime, a reaction to trauma, or vigilante justice?

How Champagne Helped to Defeat the Nazis…Or at Least Cause Some Severe GI Discomfort

In France during World War II, German alcohol shipments just may have provided crucial intelligence for the Allies

Was the Making of ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’ Cursed?

Twentieth Century Fox wanted it to be “the most spectacular film ever made.” It may have been that — and more

Richard Marcinko, First Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Six, Dies

Marcinko led the SEAL team in what has become known as the Navy’s most successful SEAL operation during the Vietnam War