It Looks Like Trump Is About to Pull the U.S. Out of Afghanistan, Too
After announcing draw-down from Syria, the president may be seriously contemplating getting out of Afghanistan as well.
After announcing draw-down from Syria, the president may be seriously contemplating getting out of Afghanistan as well.
Donald Trump explains his decision to withdraw from Syria directly to the American people.
Defense budgeting should be a strategy debate, not a rubber stamp for higher spending
A soldier died in Afghanistan over the Thanksgiving holiday. Why are we still there?
"Operation Faithful Patriot" is nothing more than a very expensive, politically motivated P.R. campaign.
According to Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan, no one expected it to pass anyway.
Both casualties and expenses are rising.
There will be no military parade today. There shouldn't be one any other day, either.
"Training" is not a good enough justification for spending $200 million to send 8,000 troops to the border.
If the Space Force goes down before it ever got up on its feet, that's probably for the best.
Trump can probably find someone better to set up barbed wire fences on the border.
Trump's comments are not the same as the Nigerian Army's actions. But regardless of the nation, shooting protesters is bad.
The government's Afghanistan watchdog releases sobering report on the progress of the war.
Can we stop being surprised (or pretending to be surprised) at well-established critiques of interventionism?
As it turns out, the 3D-printed solution costs 50 cents
If the Navy wants people to trust that it's taking steps to be better, less transparency isn't going to help.
Is another bureaucracy really going to solve the problem?
The late Arizona senator's relentless energy and patriotic sense of honor led him to heroic acts of defiance, but also misguided support for disastrous foreign interventions.
Trump says it's D.C. politicians' fault his military parade got postponed. But at least now we can afford more jet fighters!
Which is actually not too bad by Pentagon standards.
"It was not very hard" to get the spending bill through Congress, Trump said. And he's definitely right about that.
A new military service focused on space would be a burden on both taxpayers and the private space industry.
The Pentagon can't create an entirely new branch of the military on its own. But it's moving forward where it can.
The famed astrophysicist thinks a lot of people are only against the Space Force because it was Trump's idea.
In Trump's world, "everyone" is absolutely thrilled about his widely criticized plans to establish an entirely new branch of the U.S. military.
The Senate asks the Pentagon's F-35 program to explain its sizable discrepancy in savings estimates.
Amash was one of just three House Republicans to vote against the spending bill.
Pentagon officials are dragging their feet as they begin planning the military parade ordered by President Trump.
Democrats will oppose anything Trump wants, unless it's more money for the Pentagon.
A new draft article on so-called "non-Article III courts" with implications for the pending case of Dalmazzi v. United States.
A lot of people are dying in unauthorized wars.
Documentaries for Memorial Day focus on the troops' experiences.
Iran has the ability, and now the incentive, to wreak havoc on Americans and American objectives in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama's shamefully weak stab at transparency has been abandoned.
This new proposed bipartisan authorization seems more like a blank check for war.
For any transgender person attempt to enlist, though, it's a new version of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
Because national defense is our government's top priority, Pentagon spending demands close scrutiny
Trump wants to outdo the Bastille Day festivities in Paris.
Meanwhile, Trump and congressional Republicans want to remove spending caps for the Defense Department.
The Pentagon must give the ACLU an opportunity to contest any proposed transfer before it happens.
Pentagon argues it does not need to provide a legal basis for deciding to transfer the unidentified detainee.