“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 ...