Act of Valor, opening in theaters nationwide today, is about a team of Navy SEALs who are charged with finding a kidnapped CIA agent, which in turn, leads them on a mission to stop terrorists planning a series of suicide bombings in cities across the United States. But the project...

Army Sgt. First Class Leroy Petry was just over a month into his sixth war deployment when he got the nod to be part of a daylight raid to capture a "high value" Taliban leader holed up in the most desolate part of Afghanistan's Paktika Province.

On May 26, 2008,...

When I heard earlier this week that Time magazine had picked "The Protester" as its Person of the Year, two other classic fails across the American pop landscape came to mind: When the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awarded a Grammy to Jethro Tull over Metallica for the...

Through the spring and summer of 2008 I was witness to a sea change. Military veterans -- both officer and enlisted -- were warming to the notion of Barack Obama as president -- an eye-opener in that during previous election cycles this same demographic had skewed predominantly Republican.

While covering...

Between '91 and '98 I spent three aircraft carrier deployments patrolling the skies over southern Iraq. Operation Southern Watch, as the UN-mandated no-fly zone was called, was designed to ensure that Saddam's military didn't bounce back from the beating it took during Desert Storm.

And it worked. As a result...

Put another check in the win column... but do it quietly. After all, the Great Libyan War of 2011 was fought (and won) without really asking anybody if it was a good idea. No briefs to the UN. No requests to Congress. No petitions to the American people. No Code...