Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

Hal Moore retired from the Army as a 3 Star General in 1977 with over 32 years active service. Joe Galloway is the senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers and a nationally syndicated columnist.

Charlie Wilson loved to have a good time, and found a seat in Congress to be a fine place for it - there was booze to drink, beautiful women to meet, and a secret mission to destroy international communism.

As American and coalition troops fight the first battles of this new century -- from Afghanistan to Yemen to the Philippines to Iraq -- they do so in ways never before seen.

Peters criticizes the Bush administration for over-relying on high technology and defense contractors in the Iraq war and for not committing enough troops and being too afraid of casualties to do the job properly.

As the debate intensifies over the success of the U.S. policy in Iraq, public support for maintaining a military presence in Iraq is diminishing. Can the U.S. effectively fight an insurgency where no front line exists? What has the United States learned from...

As the war in Iraq continues, death and casualty figures include increasing numbers of women. Although women are technically not assigned to combat, the lack of a front line in Iraq puts women soldiers at a risk similar to men. What is the role of women in...

As the Pentagon announces a three year decline in discharges of personnel found to be gay, the Government Accounting Office reports that the Pentagon has spent $100 million to replace those discharged since 1994 for being gay. On March 2, Rep. Martin Meehan...

Hornfischer, a writer and literary agent in Austin, Tex., covers the battle off Samar, the Philippines, in October 1944, in which a force of American escort carriers and destroyers fought off a Japanese force many times its strength, and the larger battle...

Thirty years ago, Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Philip Caputo crossed the deserts of Sudan and Eritrea on foot and camel back, a journey that inspired his first novel, Horn of Africa, and awakened a lifelong fascination with Africa. His travels...

The invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq has focused new attention on veterans and the help they get.or don't get.when they come home. Here in Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times has been at the forefront with in-depth coverage of the challenges facing veterans and...

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942.

Quang X. Pham's A Sense of Duty, the first book written by a former Vietnamese refugee who became a U.S. Marine, is an affecting memoir about fate, hope, and the aftermath of the most divisive war America has fought.

The Dream presents a haunting fantasy where his father voices his disappointment with Winston because he never achieved anything.

Robert Citino analyzes military campaigns from the second half of the twentieth century to further demonstrate the difficulty of achieving decisive results at the operational level.

The Army and the Army Reserves missed their March recruiting goals, as they had in February for the first time since May 2000. While the Navy and Marines successfully met their March goals, the role of all recruiters is more challenging in the face of the...