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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “What do you think of Douglas MacArthur?” Few questions in military history are more loaded. “It’s no secret that MacArthur was ...

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, ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur was relieved of all his commands today while he was fighting his third war as an American soldier. President Truman fired the nation's senior five-star general because MacArthur ...

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UNDER the stress and tensions of the cold war in the West, the hot war in the East, and the word war in Washington, many Americans are thinking in military terms and about military men, our leaders in ...

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, ...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said, "Old Soldiers never die" and nearly 70 years later his legacy lives on. His legacy continues in today's Army with Soldiers like Capt. Troy Catterton ...