автор: Martin Binkin

For much of the nation’s history, the participation of blacks in the armed forces was ap-proximately in line with their proportion in the total population. This changed during the 1970s: by 1980 one …

In the nearly two decades since the Nixon administration decided to withdraw U.S. armed forces from Vietnam and to end their dependence on conscription, America’s military institution has undergone s …

The Persian Gulf conflict was the first major combat test for U.S. military forces since the nation ended conscription two decades ago. As hundreds of thousands of American troops were dispatched to …

When Virgil sang of arms and the man, words like "smart" and "friendly" characterized the warrior, not his weapons. Today, because of modern technology, these terms are more often …