military history

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  9/18/2020
  

  The Endless Fantasy of American Power

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Neither Trump nor Biden seems prepared to do the necessary work of moving military power and force from the center of American foreign policy. The consequence will be further endless war at the expense of the global-scale policies needed to confront the most urgent threats.

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Breaking Lincoln's Promise

  by Shannon Bontrager

  Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address demanded that Americans keep the memory of both the Union dead and their cause alive and "hot." The cooling of that memory has enabled backlashes against justice through history, and today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/13/2020
  

  Trump’s Doubts about the Military have Deep Roots in Both Parties

  by Michael Kazin

  Recent media discussions of Trump's remarks about war veterans and indifference to visiting a World War I memorial should prompt deeper thought about the antiwar movements of the right and left that the Great War created. Opposition to war can be rooted in very different values and advance different ends.

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• 9/13/2020
  

  The Pentagon is Missing the Big Picture on "Stars and Stripes"

  by Mark T. Hauser

  The Pentagon's plan to scrap funding for the Stars and Stripes newspaper isn't just an attack on a historic military institution. It's ignoring the lessons the paper's history offers for efficient operation and integrating military operations with the economic life of the nation. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  9/11/2020
  

  Many Black World War II Veterans Were Denied Their GI Bill Benefits. Time To Fix That.

  by Robert Levinson

  Fixing the biased legacy of the GI Bill could send a powerful message and, more importantly, actually repair some of the damage caused by racism that still affects black Americans today.

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  9/8/2020
  

  In 2020, Eisenhower is a Lantern in the Dark

  by Derek Chollet

  The opening of a monument to Ike in Washington is occasion to remember his commitment to the idea that American national strength depended on internal harmony and justice. 

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• SOURCE: Yakima (WA) Herald
  9/10/2020
  

  Yakima Sailor's Remains Identified 78 Years After Pearl Harbor Attack

  Advances in DNA testing made it possible to identify the remains of Patrick Chess, unnacounted for and presumed dead in the attack on the USS Oklahoma. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  He Saved Scores of Lives on D-Day. Lawmakers Say He Was Passed Over for the Medal of Honor Because He Was Black

  The late Waverly Woodson is one of an untold number of Black service members passed over for the Medal of Honor whose cases have received renewed attention decades later, as their families and historians try to correct a historical record in which the contributions of Black service members are often left out.

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• 9/6/2020
  

  The "Triple Nickles": Jim Crow Was an Elite Black Airborne Battalion's Toughest Foe

  by Robert F. Williams

  The lesson of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion for African Americans is a sadly familiar one: proving oneself is not enough; becoming members of a select fraternity was not enough to earn the respect and equality that comes with full citizenship.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  9/4/2020
  

  The Pentagon Has Ordered Stars And Stripes To Shut Down For No Good Reason

  "As a publication that’s underwritten by the military but not answerable to the brass, Stars and Stripes embodies that most American of values: the right to speak truth to power."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/31/2020
  

  The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color

  The stalled career of a distinguished Black Marine officer raises questions about how completely the Corps has embraced racial integration and equality in its leadership. 

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• SOURCE: KWTX
  8/24/2020
  

  Fort Hood: Historians and Veterans Pushing to Rename Post after Female Army Trailblazer

  Oveta Culp Hobby, a Killeen native, led the women’s Army corps during World War II.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/19/2020
  

  The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea

  In 1973, the House Armed Services Committe, led by a segregationist, believed that "reforms were the problem" in the wake of racial strife, notes Navy historian John Sherwood.

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• 8/23/2020
  

  In Removing Confederate Symbols, US Military Follows German Military’s Example

  by Fred Zilian

  With unification, a fundamental break with the values of the East German Communist Party was necessary. Former East German soldiers would now belong to an army of a democracy, rooted in the concept of the “citizen in uniform."

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  8/18/2020
  

  The Environmental Costs of War

  The effort to secure and refine aluminum ore for war materiel was environmentally damaging and previews the globalized impact of commodity supply chains. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/14/2020
  

  He Set out to Show His Son the D.C. Area’s 68 Civil War Forts. Protests Made it More than a Diversion.

  D.C.'s Black Lives Matter protests taught historian Graham H. Cornwell and his son that the Civil War cannot be studied in abstraction.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/12/2020
  

  Regrets? Even Brent Scowcroft Had a Few

  In an oral history released after his death, the former national security adviser revealed a few key moments in which his ideas failed in the war against Saddam Hussein.    

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Trump's Removal of Troops from Germany Follows a Trend

  by Michael Creswell

  While Trump's decision to halve the contingent of US troops in Germany has drawn bipartisan condemnation, critics should recognize that whether the decision is wise or foolish for today's context, it is in line with decades of efforts to shift the burdens of collective security onto NATO allies. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/8/2020
  

  America’s Military Should Confront Its Past, Not Bury It

  by Elliot Ackerman

  The German military’s infiltration by far-right extremists should be a warning for how we confront our own troubled history.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  8/5/2020
  

  Black Americans Who Served in WWII Faced Segregation and Second-Class Roles

  “The experience was very dispiriting for a lot of Black soldiers,” says Matthew Delmont, a history professor at Dartmouth College and author of "Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers."