The defense secretary's crusade is inflicting damage unlike any in history

A review of Wil Haygood, “The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home” (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026).

Leadership has spun, misled, and kept the populace in the dark through many wars during the country's 250-year history. This may be the worst.

Violent language has become a consistent and completely counterproductive part of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.

National Churchill Leadership Center – Panel Discussion & Refreshments Washington DC Event – March 26, 5:45 PM Hosted by the International Churchill Society & The Truman Library Institute Join us […]

The Arkansas senator's words warning against the perils of Washington’s ‘war fever’ in 1966 are more prescient than ever. Are we listening?

Instead of a values-based foreign policy, what has come out of the Trump White House this past year was a steady drumbeat of aggressive militaristic taunting.

Disdaining wartime rules of engagement, whether during the Cold War or today, are counterproductive to US military operations.

About The Event Wine Reception – 6:00 PM Program Begins – 6:30 PM As the vicious, destructive wars in Ukraine and the Middle East rage on—and US policymakers debate continuing […]

President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.

An edited excerpt from Faith and Fear by Gregory A. Daddis

Gregory A. Daddis is Professor of History at Texas A&M University and holds the Melbern G. Glasscock Endowed Chair in American History. This interview is based on his new book, Faith and Fear: …

Exciting opportunity in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University as a Tenured: Associate Prof...

Exciting opportunity in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History as a ...

A discussion of Greg Daddis's new book.

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Gregory A. Daddis is professor of history and the Melbern G. Glasscock Endowed Chair in American History at Texas A&M University. Daddis a...

US leaders treat the military, not as a tool of last resort, but as a divine instrument

By 1963, Marvel’s Fantastic Four battled some of the publisher's most fearsome villains. By year’s end, they faced a threat with chilling parallels to today’s political landscape.

It's been 50 years since the Fall of Saigon and we still haven't reckoned with the biggest question of them all. Until today.

Gregory Daddis reviews Geoffrey Wawro’s “The Vietnam War: A Military History.”

Gregory Daddis reviews Geoffrey Wawro’s “The Vietnam War: A Military History.”

The story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.National security may s...