February 4, 2021 I’m Sorry, Mr. President, But I Don’t Agree With That At All On Oct. 3, 1917, Gen. John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, visited…
January 28, 2021 Stars in space The Atlantis space shuttle flight STS-27R lifted off Dec. 2, 1988 with a crew of five astronauts: Commander Robert "Hoot"…
January 20, 2021 Oh, Fleet! George Marshall loved dogs. He had several as a boy, and usually had one around as an adult. This is…
December 24, 2020 The First Wartime Christmas The third week of December, 1941, a British delegation including Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff…
December 17, 2020 “I Am Interested in the Soldier Having His Pants” While a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, George Marshall studied military history and tactics, and was doubtless familiar with…
December 8, 2020 George C. Marshall (author of the Marshall Plan)’s Left Ear I'm interested in the way Americans learn to be Americans, acutely aware as I age that we are born into…
December 7, 2020 Friends and Pranksters: Marshall and Brigadier General Adams It is difficult to imagine Marshall as inhabiting anything but the no-nonsense, resolute persona of his professional life. This image is so pervasive that we are commonly…
November 18, 2020 Not Retirement At All Gen. George Marshall served as Army Chief of Staff from September 1939 to November 1945, longer than the ordinary four-year…
November 12, 2020 Infantry School: “An almost complete revamping of the instruction and technique” Lt. Col. George Marshall had just taken a position teaching at Army War College in Washington, D.C., when his wife,…
