In a talk at Texas A&M’s Bush School, historian Phillips O’Brien said the Russian invasion, now in its third year, raises a number of difficult questions about military power in the 21st century.
While recent wars have sparked speculation about an ensuing global conflict, military scholars say comparisons to past world wars are largely overblown.
James R. McIlroy ’45 was a freshman at Texas A&M when Pearl Harbor was attacked and the U.S. entered the war. He’s among the thousands of Aggies who answered the call to service.