Korean War

Key Point: Without China's intervention, Douglas MacArthur would have conquered the Korean peninsula and saved the United States from two years of war. On June 25, 1950, the North Korean Peoples Army (NKPA) under Marshal Kim Il-sung launched a no-notice inva…

JACKSON, MI Les and Freda Austin did everything together. They married in 1949 and their skills and hobbies complemented one another like the jigsaw puzzles theyd meticulously piece together. Freda loved cooking and baking and had more than 1,000 cookbooks.…

Key point: Global tensions are rising in these areas. The world has avoided war between major power war since 1945, even if the United States and the Soviet Union came quite close on several occasions during the Cold War. In the first two decades following t…

Actor Gary Sinise, who famously played Lt. Dan Taylor in 1994’s Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks, treated more than a thousand children of fallen military members to an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World for the holiday season.   Through his nonprofit, the Ga…

Contrary to public assumptions, increased combat operations do not lead to more military suicides and may actually result in fewer troops engaging in self-harm, according to a new analysis of historic Defense Department data released Friday. Study authors say…

He used the difference between football and ice hockey to explain Balanchines signature style: Traditional ballet relies on the dancers visible preparations for steps during a performance. This is like football, with players taking stances at the line of scri…

Reconnaissance of a North Korean launch site indicates that Kim Jong-Un may be preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile, three U.S. intelligence officials who monitor North Korea in different agencies tell TIME. The intelligence comes ahead of a fast-…

Fortifications at Naval Air Station Pensacola were more than 100 years old when the city became the site of a Civil War siege. In the modern era, it has graduated thousands of American jet fighter aces. But the Naval Aviation Schools Command here is also a d…

Key Point: Small defeats can still sting. In July 1950, North Korea defeated the United States Army. This wasnt supposed to happen. In the summer of 1950, America was still savoring the glow of absolute victory in World War II. There was the Soviet threat, …

Retired Col. Charles McGee, reportedly the oldest of the nine surviving Tuskegee Airmen, celebrated his milestone birthday on Saturday by returning to the skies. According to The Associated Press, McGee flew a private jet between Frederick, Maryland, and the…