wars and interventions

Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are "founders of ISIS" is not only a good example of his reckless fear-mongering but also his complete lack of understanding about true threats to national security.

Robert R. "Bob" Timberg, a former Evening Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter and Marine Corps veteran whose 1995 book "The Nightingale's Song" about five Naval Academy graduates who served in the Vietnam War earned him wide acclaim, died Tuesday from respiratory failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 76.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 8, 2016

Dan Rodricks disparages Baltimore County Trump supporters as poorly educated and economically anxious

The tears streamed down Alix Idrache's face. In the photograph, the streaks reach almost to the high collar of his dress gray uniform.

By Ian Duncan

May 26, 2016

The Taliban attack on Pakistani schoolchildren yesterday has galvanized public opinion against the insurgents

events at Howard county senior centers

Ever since George W. Bush in 2002 began driving up public frenzy for his invasion of Iraq on trumped-up justifications a year later, Congress' constitutional role to declare war has continued to be cold-shouldered.

By Jules Witcover

Dec 8, 2014

City taxpayers will foot some of the bill for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's recent trip to New Orleans in which she campaigned for a fellow Democrat and attended the "Monday Night Football" game between the Ravens and the Saints.

By Luke Broadwater

Dec 7, 2014

Carroll veterans reflect on the war on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled new initiatives Thursday to battle rape and other sexual assaults within the U.S. military after the Pentagon released a report showing an 8% increase in reported incidents over the past year.

President Obama's firm determination that no more American combat forces will be introduced in the Middle East battlefield may well thwart his intention to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the new threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

By Jules Witcover

Dec 1, 2014

With Chuck Hagels departure, Mr. Obama almost finds himself back at square one in his own war against war.

Bidders snap up swords, guns, figurines

By Chris Kaltenbach

Nov 21, 2014

Midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and other students at U.S. military institutions will now be able to pass through airports with a little less hassle.

President is obligated to attack Islamic State to defense U.S. interests here and abroad

The other day I found myself at the famous Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago, talking about my latest effort, a history on the evolution of the American vice presidency. The visit brought to mind a little-discussed Lincoln story in the book that I will convey here in necessarily abbreviated form.

By Jules Witcover

Nov 17, 2014

Nearly five decades after their service, veterans of the Vietnam War deserve to be honored and embraced by their countrymen

When Columbia resident Kelly Renee Armstrong was a student at Bowie State, she had several interests. Her first love was theater, but since Bowie did not have a drama department, she settled for being in campus plays while majoring in political science and minoring in Pan African studies.

The best hope is that the newly empowered Republicans, hoping to counter the brand of negativism that haunted them throughout the Obama administration will swiftly put forward their own legislative agenda and bring much of it up for a vote in both houses.

By Jules Witcover

Nov 10, 2014

The Soldier's National Museum, housed in a building that predates the Civil War and has been a museum of one sort or another since the 1950s, is shutting its doors for good Sunday afternoon — the victim, its owner says, of a culture that demands a more dynamic, interactive, hands-on experience for its museum dollar.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Nov 1, 2014

Threat of terror attacks from Islamic State is too great for U.S. military to ignore

Bells will peal and special events unfold in Howard County on Saturday as part of a statewide effort to mark the 150th anniversary of Maryland's stepping up to the plate in a big way on Nov. 1, 1864. That's when it officially became the first slave state in the country to voluntarily free its slaves, over a year before the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery across the nation on Dec. 6, 1865.

Anne Arundel County datebook

Forty-five Army civilians who voluntarily deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to destroy Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile were honored by Department of Defense officials in a ceremony Oct. 8.

Russett residents Carla and Colin Sandy, of Sandy Audio Visual LLC, received the distinguished 2014 Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award at the War Memorial Hall in downtown Baltimore.

United States helped supply chemical weapons to Iraq's Saddam Hussein

In August 1990, a few hundred Marines helicoptered into Liberia and evacuated U.S. citizens. To Liberians, it was as if the cavalry in a Western movie had showed up in the nick of time, but stopped and galloped off before saving the day. I thought of this image when U.S. troops started landing in large numbers in Liberia, this time to help stem the epidemic of Ebola.

Panetta has paved the way for Hillary Clinton to become the candidate with a warrior's heart, writes David Horsey.

Teach math like the military does

Opening Knights drama club presenting 'Little Women' at Century High School

Joe Biden has a penchant for revealing the inconvenient truth.

While the president has faced great challenges, he has dealt with them only half way, writes Jules Witcover.

Century High School will bring the 2005 musical version of "Little Women" to the stage for five performances, starting Oct. 10

Mount Airy Senior and Community Center has been sending care packages to the U.S. troops stationed abroad for the past 14 years.

U.S. faces a challenging fight against a dreaded disease in West Africa

The Halloween season is upon us and there are plenty of opportunities in the Baltimore area to get scarred by the time-honored tradition of the haunted attraction.

Most war re-enactors are law-abiding citizens holding down solidly middle-class jobs. And unlike the kooks of Internet caricature, they're fully capable of separating fantasy from fact.

Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table hosted Civil War Day at Carroll Lutheran Village, in Westminster, Sept. 20.

Though recognition that all are equal remains an ideal, that ideal is closer to being realized today in the U.S. than ever before, thanks to sacrifices and heroics by the likes of Sgt. Hilton on and off the field of battle.

This week 45 years ago, the New York Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles to take the World Series, thousands across the country took part in mass organized anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was born and the following songs were the most popular in the United States, via Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.

The U.S. agreement to stay in the country beyond 2014 isn't a blank check for an indefinite U.S. troop presence there

Joseph F. Nawrozki III, a retired Baltimore Sun reporter who earlier had been on the staff of the old News American, died Saturday at his Bel Air home of leukemia. He was 70.