April 9, 2014 marked the 149th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. Abraham Lincoln would only be alive for less than a week following the surrender.
Book review writer Richard Sisk on “Grant’s Enforcer” by Guy Gugliotta, Vietnam-era Navy swiftboat veteran and award-winning former reporter for The Washington Post, the Miami Herald and United Press ...
The American military is not supposed to intervene in domestic politics. This is the long-standing norm governing U.S. civil-military relations. The Constitution asserts civilian control over the ...