What do you do before ordering hundreds of thousands of men into an invasion of Europe? What kind of pressure does that put on a leader? That’s the big question behind “Pressure,” a new film charting Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s stressful hours leading up to the launch of D-Day. It’s also about the weather.
“Pressure,” adapted from writer David Haig’s 2014 play of the same name, arrives this spring and just released its trailer.
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In 2026, I returned to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island not as a recruit, but as an educator participating in the U.S. Marine Corps Educators Workshop (EWS). The moment I stepped back onto the depot, memory arrived uninvited. The humidity, the cadence echoing across open ground, the unmistakable posture of Marines moving with purpose—it all felt immediately familiar.
Also Read: The friendly rivalry between ‘Hollywood Marines’ and Parris Island Marines
Parris Island is not an abstract chapter of Marine Corps history for me. It is deeply personal.
As the national conversation swirls around Pete Hegseth’s challenge of women in combat, it may be hard to imagine a similar situation more than a half-century ago. The question today is: “Do women deserve access to combat roles?”
Back then, it was: “Do men deserve access to nursing roles?’
For the majority of the 20th Century, men were barred from commissioning in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) solely on the basis of their gender.
Related: 10 reasons to become a military nurse
To understand this little-known piece of history, we need a crash course in the history of Army nurses.
By Col. Bill Conner, Esq., USA ret, The Citadel ’90Chairman, STARRS Board of Advisors
As happened with Joe Biden in 2020, the Democrats in Virginia pulled off another bait and switch with Abigail Spanberger as Governor. The Democrats ran Spanberger as a moderate to win yet now governing to the left of Karl Marx in all the initial executive orders.
As one VA GOP lawmaker put it, “Virginians were sold a facade of practical solutions to make the commonwealth affordable—instead, they’re getting Zohran Mamdani-style collectivism..”
And another noted “Gov.
The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps is asking his fellow Marines for help. He wants them to ask for help.
Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz took to Instagram on Friday to talk about suicide in the Marine Corps. In a video, Ruiz told troops that, even if they don’t realize it, there might be Marines in their formations that are struggling with feelings of loneliness and pain, feelings that can lead to them taking their own lives.
James Mingus & Sam Kriegler & R. J. Burton, MWI
… the Army must learn from Washington’s lesson on mobility or risk a fate that nearly ended us before the nation even began.
Chad Machiela & Seth Gray, Small Wars Journal
Department of Defense Instruction 3000.
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If diplomatic efforts to end Iran’s nuclear program fail, the president’s appetite for a potentially lengthy war will be tested
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Colton Jones, Defence Blog
The United States Marine Corps has decided to retain the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle for its close combat formations rather than adopt the Army’s M7 Next…