Douglas MacArthur

<p><span class="deck"> Sixteen years before Pearl Harbor an English naval expert uncannily prophesied in detail the war in the Pacific. Now comes evidence that the Japanese heeded his theories—but not his warnings</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> What’s Happened to the Long Gray Line</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A SUBMARINE COMMANDER TELLS WHY WE ALMOST LOST THE PACIFIC WAR</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A soldier remembers the freezing, fearful retreat down the Korean Peninsula after the Chinese armies smashed across the border</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When the President fired the general, civilian control of the military faced its severest test in our history</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Two letters from a Navy lieutenant to his wife tell the story of the last hours of World War II.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The old school is alive with the memory of men like Lee, Grant, Pershing, and Eisenhower.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The old Regular Army, part fairy tale and part dirty joke, was generally either ignored or disdained. But its people went about their work with a dogged humdrum gallantry, and when the storm broke, they helped save the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization, but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The half-remembered Korean conflict was full of surprises, and nearly all of them were unpleasant</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Truman was Commander in Chief of the American armed forces, and he had a duty to the men under his command that simply was not shared by those sitting in moral judgment decades later.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck">As a ten-year-old boy, the author had a role to play in bringing Douglas MacArthur’s vision of democracy to a shattered Japan.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An overheard remark sent the author off on a years-long quest to discover the truth about a man whose power to inspire both rage and reverence has only grown after his death.</span></p>

<p><span class="body">That’s General MacArthur! Clear the port wing of the bridge!!</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with the man who shot his plane down.</span></p>

<p>Why were 20 wounded American soldiers released on Thanksgiving in 1950, days before the Chinese attacked in Korea?</p>

<p><span class="deck">The Korean War erupted 50 years ago this June. Many Americans still believe that it began in debacle (which is true) and ended in a humiliating compromise that changed nothing (which is not).</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Fifty years ago in the frozen mountains of Korea, the Marines endured a campaign as grueling and heroic as any in history.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why a 200-year-old decoration offers evidence in the controversy surrounding the Hiroshima bombing.</span></p>

<p>A determined president fires his constitution-defying celebrity general in Korea.</p>

<p>Miscalculations and blunders by world leaders precipitated the Korean War 60 years ago.</p>

<p>Too often overlooked today, the New Guinea campaign was the longest of the Pacific War, with 340,000 Americans fighting more than half a million Japanese.</p>