The constitution gives Congress the power to enact a draft, with each draft deciding who is to be pressed into military ...

Mohammed Ali is credited with defying the draft board by declaring conscientious objector status due to being a Black Muslim. “He embellished his position with a now-famous statement, ‘I ain’t got no ...

With the Vietnam War and larger wars in Southeast Asia in Cambodia and Laos, two lines of thought on resisting that war in a ...

Beginning on April 29, 1975, Armed Forces Radio jarringly blasted the Christmas song throughout the bombarded city as ...

Author, historian and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson's new book, "The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage ...

The U.S. military’s recruiting troubles came just as it was attempting a fundamental shift in its mission. For decades, the ...

Vietnam: The War That Changed America matters for Broyles, not just because it reminds us of history but because it illuminates contemporary conflicts where young men are still sent out to do ...

If Barbara Tuchman were still alive to update her classic book on cases of geopolitical stupidity and miscalculation, The ...

Chairwoman Dawn Buckingham, M.D., is proud to introduce the next installment of the series highlighting the VLB's Voices of Veterans oral history program. This week, they highlight the service of Rear ...

Many Ukrainians have come to the realisation that their state is distributing the burdens and benefits of war unfairly.

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

Still, Trump’s intervention hopefully implies that he has jammed the wheels of Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloodied war ... veteran US journalist Seymour Hersh reposted an old piece from Vietnam ...