This Veteran’s Day, as we remember those men and women we’ve sent into battle, we should also take a moment to remember the fateful decisions, sometimes tragically bad ones, our commanders made that ...

TOKYO, TOKYO - JULY 18: Visitors examine a bust of General MacArthur in the room which served as his office in the Allied Power's Post-War Headquarter office in the Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Building, ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after ...

On April 28, 1961—a decade after General Douglas MacArthur was fired for defying Harry Truman on Korea—the controversial commander hosted President John F. Kennedy at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, ...

A copy of General Douglas MacArthur’s speech to a joint session of Congress on April 19, 1951. (Library of Congress) The clash between Truman and MacArthur turned on what to do about China. In the ...

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A piece on thee ways in which the late General Douglas MacArthur impacted the lives of people around him. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

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