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May

5/7/2009

Front & Center with John Callaway
Mexico: The Way Forward
With over 7,000 people killed since the beginning of last year, drug-related violence is spiraling out of control in Mexico, and martial law has been declared in Ciudad .

5/12/2009

Mort Kunstler
A Discussion with the Artist
As we continue our series of gallery exhibitions by great military artists at the Pritzker Military Library, we've reached one of the true giants of the field ...

5/21/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Donald E. Ballard
When the first grenade landed near them, "Doc" Ballard was able to grab it and throw it away. But when the second came, he knew he didn't have enough time ...

5/28/2009

PW Singer
Wired for War:
The Robotics Revolution & Conflict in the 21st Century
Some of them have a hard time with the sand and heat in Iraq, but you won't hear them complain. They don't miss their families while they're in the field, and ...

June

6/4/2009

Front & Center with John Callaway
LeMay: The Life & Wars of General Curtis LeMay
General Curtis LeMay was a monster, a belligerent and remorseless murderer. He was a patriot of the first order, a forward-thinking visionary who created the ...

6/11/2009

Ron Werneth
Beyond Pearl Harbor
The Untold Stories of Japan's Naval Airmen
"The initial feeling after shooting down someone was relief, because it was not me who was shot down," said Harada-san. "When we shot at each other, we were...

6/16/2009

David Kilcullen
The Accidental Guerrilla:
Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
It's not that we haven't fought the war in Iraq before, argues David Kilcullen. We have - the U.S. and its allies have dealt with similar conflicts in post-war Germany...

6/18/2009

Nick Del Calzo
Nick Del Calzo, Photographer
It's often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But the work of photographer Nick Del Calzo needs only one word to describe its incredible value: courage

6/24/2009

Michael Pearlman
Truman and MacArthur
Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown
The nerve of him! How dare that little necktie salesman, that cheap tinhorn politician - how dare he pull a five-star general from the field of battle? We're talking...

July

7/9/2009

Doug Stanton
Horse Soldiers:
The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Their mission was secret, and time was short. So in order to cross the steep mountain trails of Afghanistan, the U.S. Special Forces turned to some ...

September

9/10/2009

Thomas Ricks
The Gamble: General David Petraeus & the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006 - 2008
His evaluation was right there in the title of his first book about in Iraq, in 2006: Fiasco. Since that book came out, we?ve seen a new secretary of defense ...

October

10/2/2009

Darrell Griffin, Sr.
Last Journey: A Father Son in Wartime
Their book began as The Great Conversation ? a father and son chewing over life, faith, and philosophy, debating the reasons behind the war in Iraq and ...

September

9/16/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Robert D. Maxwell, U.S. Army, World War II
For more than 65 years, he has carried a message wherever he goes. In World War II, the messages were between the command post and the front lines ...

9/24/2009

Michael & Elizabeth M. Norman
Tears in the Darkness:
The Story of the Bataan Death March & Its Aftermath
Don't stop walking. You haven't slept in days, and you haven't eaten a full meal for more than four months. Your entire body is shaking from ...

October

10/8/2009

Richard Bessel
Germany 1945: From War to Peace
The Nazis took a vow from the memory of their nation?s defeat in World War I: there would be no armistice to end this war, no humiliating terms of surrender to ...

10/15/2009

Jeremiah Workman
Shadow of the Sword
This is how the story is normally shown: the hero introduced, the mission explained, the vow made, the battle fierce, the rescue victorious, the hero ...

10/22/2009

Tanya Biank
Army Wives
Army life involves more than two hundred years of tradition, rules, and regulations, and it offers long periods of monotony interspersed with moments ...

10/29/2009

James Carl Nelson
The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War
Face down in a field of wheat, blood leaking from both sides of his body, John Nelson waited for what remained of his life. Above him, the hot summer air was split...

November

11/2/2009

Archie Brown
The Rise and Fall of Communism
Once a club of sixteen nations, whose membership ruled nearly half the globe, they are now reduced to five; even as the economic crisis of 2008 offered ...

11/19/2009

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Michael Thornton, U.S. Navy, Vietnam
Lt. Thomas Norris had a dangerous mission to complete, and he had his pick of men to join him. He chose a 23 year old Navy SEAL named Michael ...

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