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U.s. Military
Air Travel Is Not Ready for Electronic Warfare Militaries are spoofing GPS signals, with civilian planes increasingly caught in the crossfire. What happens when someone actually targets them?
By Jeff Wise
The Marine Corps Is Leaderless Because a Senator Is Mad About Abortion Tommy Tuberville continues to block all Department of Defense nominees over a policy that covers servicemembers’ travel expenses for abortions.
By Nia Prater
awful things
Nov. 13, 2021
U.S. Covered Up Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria: Report More than 60 civilians, including many women and children, appear to have been killed, according to a new investigation.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
george floyd protests
June 3, 2020
Former Pentagon Chief James Mattis Blasts Trump for Violating Constitution It’s not a good sign when former subordinates trained for quiet discipline begin to call Trump a threat to the Constitution.
By Ed Kilgore
george floyd protests
June 3, 2020
Defense Secretary: Trump Shouldn’t Invoke Insurrection Act to Quell Protests Mark Esper may be reflecting military leaders’ reluctance to be politicized by President Trump, who has floated sending military units to cities.
By Ed Kilgore
george floyd protests
June 1, 2020
Trump Mulls Declaring an Insurrection and Sending Military Into Cities If deployed widely without requests from state officials, such use of the military would be unprecedented.
By Ed Kilgore
minneapolis protests
May 29, 2020
Trump Can’t Explain Away His Vile ‘Looting’ Tweet Despite his disingenuous attempt to walk back his threat toward Minneapolis protesters, it’s clear he just wanted to pour gasoline on the fire.
By Ed Kilgore
Listen: Acting Navy Secretary Calls Fired Captain ‘Stupid’ in Leaked Speech Days after he was fired and tested positive for COVID-19, former Captain Brett Crozier is publicly attacked by the Navy’s acting secretary.
By Adam K. Raymond
border wall
Jan. 14, 2020
Trump to Take Another $7.2 Billion From the Pentagon for Border Wall All told, more than $18 billion in government funds has been allocated to the wall.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump’s War-Crimes Pardons Invite the Mayhem He Loves An outlaw president naturally wants to celebrate outlaw behavior in the military, too.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. military
Dec. 26, 2018
Trump Makes Surprise Trip to Iraq, One Spot Where He Isn’t Withdrawing Troops Amid the uproar over his decision to pull troops from Afghanistan and Syria, President Trump made his first appearance in a combat zone.
By Ed Kilgore
Putin Touts Summit ‘Agreements,’ U.S. Can’t Say What They Are The U.S. military is reportedly “scrambling” to detail agreements made between Trump and Putin.
By Adam K. Raymond
U.S. Army Is Discharging Immigrants Who Were Promised Citizenship At least 40 recruits and reservists have been quietly booted with little explanation, and now their immigration status could be at risk.
By Margaret Hartmann
online harassment
May 3, 2018
By Leah Rodriguez
revenge porn
Mar. 10, 2018
By Amanda Arnold
Mattis: The U.S. Needs a Smaller Nuke to Prevent Nuclear War The Defense Secretary said if the military had smaller nukes, it would deter nations from hitting the U.S. with small nuclear weapons of their own.
By Adam K. Raymond
transgender rights
Dec. 31, 2017
U.S. Military to Accept Transgender Recruits on New Year’s Day “We are relieved that we don’t have to hit pause on the constitutional rights of transgender people who are willing and able to serve our country.”
By Amanda Arnold
Trump to Put ‘Quartet of Warriors’ in Charge of Foreign Policy Rex Tillerson’s dismissal will be no surprise. But the military-heavy character of the new team that will ascend to power in his absence is ominous.
By Ed Kilgore
3 Missing After U.S. Navy Plane Crashes Near Japan It’s the latest accident for the beleaguered Seventh Fleet.
By Adam K. Raymond
crimes and misdemeanors
Nov. 12, 2017
Slain Green Beret Reportedly Turned Down Navy SEALs’ Stolen Money The SEALs are said to be suspected of strangling Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar in Mali last June.
By Margaret Hartmann
Will the Generals Save Us From Trump? The unusual influence of the military on this president is a gift and a curse.
By Jonah Shepp
transgender rights
Oct. 30, 2017
Turns Out Enacting Legislation Takes More Than Pressing ‘Send Tweet’ A federal court has temporarily prevented the Pentagon from enacting a ban on transgender troops.
By Leah Rodriguez
Fourth U.S. Soldier Confirmed Dead After Niger Attack After three Special Forces troops were killed Wednesday, a fourth has been found dead in the West African country.
By Adam K. Raymond
The Military Is Reportedly Cutting Loose Hundreds of Foreign-Born Recruits After waiting years to clear background checks, some may now be at risk of deportation.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump Reportedly Signs Order Banning Transgender People From Joining Military Trump follows through on his tweets, but leaves the status of openly transgender active service members up to Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
By Jen Kirby
White House Finds Solution to Transgender Military Ban: Delay, Let Mattis Decide The reported plan gives Mattis six months to figure out what Trump’s tweets mean for service members — and by then the courts may have weighed in.
By Margaret Hartmann
White House Finds Solution to Transgender Military Ban: Delay, Let Mattis Decide The reported plan gives Mattis six months to figure out what Trump’s tweets mean for service members — and by then the courts may have weighed in.
By Margaret Hartmann
Police Departments Say They’ll Welcome Transgender Troops If transgender troops are kicked out of the military, police departments across the country say they’ll step in.
By Claire Landsbaum
Trump Announces Ban on Transgender Troops Serving Military in ‘Any Capacity’ It’s unclear how this policy would affect the thousands of transgender troops already serving.
By Adam K. Raymond
American-Led Air Strike Mistakenly Kills 18 Anti-ISIS Allies in Syria The strike was supposed to be on ISIS forces, but it hit fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces instead.
By Adam K. Raymond
Female Marines Write Letter Calling for Change After Nude-Photo Scandal An open letter signed by nearly 100 female Marines calls for an end to misogyny.
By Lisa Ryan
sexual harassment
Mar. 14, 2017
Female Senators Blast Military Officials Over Nude-Photo Scandal “When you say to us it’s got to be different, that rings hollow.”
By Claire Landsbaum
North Korea Threatens U.S. and South Korea With ‘Merciless’ Strikes As the U.S. and South Korea ramp up war games in the East Sea, North Korea is responding with trademark bluster.
By Adam K. Raymond
sexual harassment
Mar. 10, 2017
By Claire Landsbaum
Marines Set Up Outside Raqqa, Escalating U.S. Involvement in Syria Newly arrived Marines will assist the hundreds of special-ops forces already in Syria.
By Adam K. Raymond
hair politics
Feb. 10, 2017
The U.S. Army Finally Lifted Its Ban on Dreadlocks African-American servicewomen are praising the change.
By Claire Landsbaum
An 8-Year-Old American Girl Died in the First Military Strike Under Trump Nawar al-Awlaki, the daughter of New Mexico–born Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed, along with a Navy SEAL.
By Claire Landsbaum
war on terror
Jan. 29, 2017
U.S. Commando Killed in Al Qaeda Raid in Yemen, First Combat Death Under Trump The raid was the first U.S. ground operation in Yemen since the start of the country’s two-year-old civil war.
By Chas Danner
afghanistan
Nov. 12, 2016
By Chas Danner
U.S. Fighter Jets Warn Away Syrian Warplanes The encounter came one day after a Syrian aircraft bombed Kurdish positions near where U.S. special forces have been operating.
By Chas Danner
Marine Corps Eases Weight Restrictions for Women The new guidelines mean women can actually build muscle mass.
By Claire Landsbaum
Pentagon Lifts Ban on Transgender Military Members Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said transgender service members can serve openly, “effective immediately.”
By Claire Landsbaum
trans rights
June 25, 2016
By Jenni Miller
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