Decades after serving in Asia, the children of American service members are finding their parent through DNA testing.

Rebecca L. Root is a multimedia journalist based in Bangkok but reporting globally. She covers humanitarian aid, human rights ...

He was a military man straight out of central casting: 6 foot 5, stoic, and certain. His call sign, bestowed on him during the Vietnam War, was “Warrior.” My nickname for him was “Dadmiral,” and for ...

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to Quantico, Virginia, last September, he delivered a blunt message: Things were changing fast in ...

Being a Marine and later an international aid and human rights worker taught me how to read a room. Vietnam. Beirut. Somalia. Bosnia. Rwanda. Iraq. Afghanistan. Survival depended on noticing what ...

As my father, a Navy pilot, neared the end of his life, we watched “Top Gun: Maverick” together. “It was good,” he commented. “I’m better.” That was my father, Richard Chester Macke, a Naval Academy ...

If not for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, Valeria Casillas probably would not have joined the military. But in the surge of patriotism following deadly terrorist attacks on New York City and outside ...

This month marks 25 years since the attack on Sept. 11, which started the Global War on Terrorism. A quarter century. I have three kids who weren’t even alive for any of it. To them, it’s just a ...

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