T he U.S. Military Academy at West Point has updated its new mission statement, which now omits retired Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s famous “duty, honor, country” and caused a stir among people ...

General Douglas MacArthur, 1905. Library of Congress ... Douglas received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1898. Over the next four years, he would achieve ...

In his military-industrial complex speech, Eisenhower didn't just target the Pentagon. He also singled out science and ...

General John J. Pershing, Chaumont, France. NARA But to a young Douglas MacArthur entering West Point in 1899, the name John Pershing most likely elicited fear and loathing, not admiration.