George C. Marshall (1880-1959), arguably the greatest soldier America has produced, was an enigmatic figure throughout his life. Famously tight-lipped, the general-statesman repressed all personal ...

This episode unpacks how the Marshall Plan transformed postwar Western Europe and why security, allied cooperation, and forward thinking were the real keys to its enduring success. George Marshall ...

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Let us cross the river and rest in the shade. —Stonewall Jackson’s dying words In September 1897, a gawky, 16-year-old youngster from Uniontown, Pa. entered, the tradition-hallowed halls of Virginia ...

Last week an air of great decision hung over Washington. To some it even seemed that the commanders and civilians who hold the fate of the U.S. in their hands had decided at last “how the U.S. is ...

One antidote to our poisonous, nasty political atmosphere is to consider especially significant positive leaders of our past. Author, educator and soldier Josiah Bunting III has done just that for us ...

As V-E Day drew to a close, Secretary of War Henry Stimson gathered a group of top generals and officials in his office and sent for Army Chief of Staff George Marshall. "I have never seen a task of ...