Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

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...

Strachan strenuously avoids the traditional focus on the Western Front (and the British) and the conventional assumptions of generals' stupidity and soldiers' valor. The war as he sees it was a race among generals on all sides to create new weapons and tactics...

In the Pacific theater during World War II there were more than one hundred D-Days. The largest -- and last -- was the invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, which brought together the biggest invasion fleet ever assembled, far larger than that engaged in the...

At dawn on March 2, 2002, America's first major battle of the 21st century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley-and into the mouth of a buzz saw

While American troops are serving overseas, their families here at home must deal with both the anxiety of loved ones in combat as well as the day to day challenges of getting along without fathers or mothers, husbands or wives, and brothers or sisters. Join...

The practice of "embedding" journalists in combat units provided a good deal of spectacular, timely footage, but tended to restrict insight to the frontline perspective of riflemen and vehicle crews.