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Monday is Memorial Day — a day to honor those who have died while serving in the U.S. military. It's also a time to reflect on the sacrifices that service members and their families have made.

On ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's hourlong talkshow,  host Krys Boyd has had several conversations on American war.

Here are a few discussions, both philosophical and historical, about wars and the people who fight them.

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The advent of drone strikes is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to advanced technologies’ impact on battle. Retired U.S. Air Force Major General Robert Latiff talks about what war will look like going forward – and whether or not we’re ready for what’s to come. His book is called .

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There may be no two contemporaries in American military history who are remembered more differently than George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Historian Nathaniel Philbrick discusses how the relationship between these two changed during the war, which he wrote about in .

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Did the Civil War emerge from a power struggle that had nothing to do with slavery? We’ll discover the first conflicts between the Northern and Southern United States with historian and novelist Thomas Fleming. His book is .

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Fifteen million people lost their lives during the First World War. Producer Stephen Ives talks about how the conflict vaulted the U.S. into a world power – and about the individual soldiers, nurses, aviators and others who paved the way to victory. 

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In the early days of World War II, Alfred Lee Loomis made a fortune on Wall Street. And with that money, he funded a team of scientists charged with developing radar into a weapon that would defeat the Axis Powers. The story is told in the American Experience documentary The Secret of Tuxedo Park (watch it ). Director Rob Rapley discusses with us the outsized influence these relatively unknown men had on the outcome of the war.

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After the atomic bomb helped end World War II, many wondered if the U.S. would also deploy the world’s most-feared weapon in the Korean War. We discuss how that question drove a wedge between the White House and the military.

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CIA operative Edward Landsdale arrived in Vietnam in 1954 with a mission of winning over the hearts and minds of the people of South Vietnam. Historian Max Boot joined us to talk about how Lansdale's diplomatic efforts were squashed by the American industrial complex.

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Jon Kerstetter has witnessed war in Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia and, ultimately, Iraq as a soldier in the U.S. Army. And while those around him were focused on killing, he was there to heal the wounded. He talks about saving lives in the world's deadliest places, which he wrote about in his book, . 

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