Key Points and Summary – After years of recruiting shortfalls, the U.S. Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory Course at Fort Jackson is quietly reshaping how America fills its ranks. -The program targets ...

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Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

One of the most powerful photographs from the Vietnam War shows a young South Vietnamese girl running down a street, naked and crying. Behind her, South Vietnamese planes had just pummeled her village ...

Perhaps historical amnesia is not such a bad thing, despite George Santayana’s warning in 1905’s “The Life of Reason” that those who “cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” One reason ...

It could once have been said that the Vietnam War was the most photographed war in history, but you can’t say that anymore, because today everybody has a camera. Everything, it seems, is photographed ...

We have been learning about Russell’s Marland Burckhardt, who graduated from Russell High School in 1959, enlisted in the Army, and served in Italy before returning to pursue his love and college. His ...

Recently, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has argued that during the Biden years, Army basic training became too soft and lost some of its hardcore edge. He wants basic training to toughen up. Which ...

An increase in Army recruitment and enlistment has led to five more basic combat training companies at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, and a 30% increase in soldiers training there. The Army has ...

This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War — a period the country commemorates through poignant museums and memorials. Today, the people of this fast-growing Southeast Asian ...

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A delegation of war veterans from Quoc Oai District, Hanoi, visits the National Road 9 Martyrs’ Cemetery in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, on April 21. (Maika Elan/For The Washington Post) I have been ...