Much of the armed forces’ success has been attributed to political and military leadership, and superior planning and strategy. These were vital factors for victory. But equally vital was the high ...

“I had rather have a [soldier] that knows what he fights for and loves what he knows. . . .”—Cromwell. At Army posts and camps in the U.S. this week soldiers gathered in groups for a ...

“The Stars & Stripes incident [has] brutally exposed one open sore in the American fighting man,” cabled TIME Correspondent Will Lang last week: “He is the most homesick soldier in the world.

which threatens its future military operations, writes the American think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in a recent analysis. It adds that morale within the Russian military community ...

Yet despite the brutality of the Great War, soldiers were able to endure a drawn-out conflict ... experiences and adopt mechanisms that will both develop and maintain high morale and also try to make ...