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Boldness, genius and a rare willingness to risk all in pursuit of victory. Few would disagree that Great Britain’s Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) was a great naval leader. Indeed, many historians consider him the world’s foremost naval leader. But that judgment begs an important question: How does one define Nelson’s greatness? In his …
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Free at Last: Operation HomecomingForty years ago, Operation Homecoming saw nearly 600 American POWs freed—and began the task of accounting for those still missing. Oh, the unsettling stories that former prisoners … Read MoreLong Night on Hill 488In June 1966, a Marine recon platoon, surrounded and vastly outnumbered, achieved one of the war’s most audacious victories. Wearing his old jungle boonie hat, Ray Hildreth hunkere… Read MoreThe Collapse of GeneralshipThe decline of integrity, discipline and objectivity among the generals in Vietnam fostered a dysfunctional chain of command and an Army in disarray. Just three decades before the … Read MoreVietnam- Letter from the Editor June 2013Bookends to the War IN DECEMBER 2010, IN THE PROVINCIAL Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi had had enough of life in a repressive regime. His ultimate prote… Read MoreStanley Karnow: An Interesting Man in Interesting TimesRestless, skeptical, petulant and compulsively inquisitive, to the end. Stanley Karnow, the journalist and historian who wrote the definitive book on the war, fond of quoting a Chi… Read More
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