In the mid-1960s, the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted Notre Dame’s Rocky Bleier. Unfortunately, Steeler management failed to protect the prized rookie with the paperwork necessary to take advantage of a myriad of available conscription-law loopholes, and Bleier ended up…

History holds that during World War II the Army executed only one American soldier, Private Eddie Slovik. There was another, a footnote to history.

In 1944, B-24 Liberators taking off from a base in Italy began exploding when they “rotated,”…

Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s psychotic “Dear Leader,” specializes in “guerrilla diplomacy.” He backs it up with a half-dozen or so nuclear weapons squirreled away deep inside mountain storage facilities that cannot be reached by our bunker-buster bombs, and…

 Many conservatives wonder why retired Army Gen. Colin Powell endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The quick answer-and the most inadequate one-is that Powell is obliged to endorse the first African-American with a real chance to win the presidency. That…

Economic and political destabilization ranked high on al-Qaeda’s list of strategic objectives in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington, DC. In addition to killing nearly 3,000 innocent people, the attacks immediately inflicted over $80 billion dollars…

President George W. Bush’s recent misstatement that the “War on Terror is unwinnable” — corrected by the president the next day on the radio with an explanation that the war will not end with a surrender ceremony reminiscent of the…

Main Course: Holocaust

In the dining room of this mansion, which once belonged to a wealthy Jewish businessman, SS Obengruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, hosted 14 other top Nazi officials charged with devising the final solution to the Jewish problem. In…