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'Disturbing and reckless': Retired brass spread election lie in attack on Biden, Democrats
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A day after 124 retired generals and admirals released a letter spreading the lie that President Joe Biden stole the election, current and former military officers are speakin...
By Jim Golby
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‘We cut too deep’: Air Force reinstates hundreds of ROTC cadets after dismissals spark backlash
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The Air Force reversed its decision to dismiss hundreds of reserve officer training cadets and restored nearly 130 scholarships, officials said, after a lobbying effort assail...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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What Should Be Addressed in Austin’s Confirmation Hearing for Defense Secretary?
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Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing to become defense secretary. If confirmed, he would be...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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General education: What Austin can learn from Mattis’s rocky relationship with Congress
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The Warrior Monk was having a bad meeting. At the Capitol in the fall of 2017, Sen. John McCain was fuming to then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Unless Mattis turned over the ...
By Jim Golby
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AP sources: Biden picks Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense
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President-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to four people familiar with the decision. If conf...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky.
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases across Afghanistan since the signing of a deal with the Taliban in February, according to Afghan and U.S. officials, part of a d...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump’s Afghan Troop Withdrawal Puts Biden in a Jam
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As President Donald Trump tries to end America’s longest war, he has settled on a compromise. Instead of withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, as he boast...
By Jim Golby
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Trump’s just-announced troop drawdown from Afghanistan and Iraq, explained
President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing a few thousand more service members home but still falling short of his promi...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Biden Family’s Military Ties May Influence Approach to Policy in White House
As the U.S. military awaits its new commander in chief, experts predict that the White House under Joe Biden will cut defense spending, encourage more social diversity in the ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalists
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A retired brigadier general who called former President Barack Obama a terrorist. A former staffer to Republican Rep. Devin Nunes who wrote a memo accusing federal investigato...
By Jim Golby
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Commandant’s Reading List includes books about female Marines for the first time ― but is it enough?
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The Marine Corps overhauled the Commandant’s Reading List in 2020 in a modernization effort to become more relevant to the modern-day Marine. As part of the process, the Corps...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Air Force takes steps to clear path for women’s advancement
When Alexandra Jackson joined the West Virginia Air National Guard in 2018, she was looking forward to becoming a pilot with the 167th Airlift Wing, like her father. But at 5-...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Marine Corps boots infantryman investigated for sharing alleged white supremacist material
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The Marine Corps has kicked out an infantryman investigated earlier this year for allegedly sharing white supremacist material, one of more than two dozen Marines to come unde...
By Emma Moore
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Deployed soldiers face punishment for their ‘message to liberals’ video
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Two deployed Michigan Army National Guard soldiers who in September posted an obscenity-laced TikTok video of themselves, armed and in uniform, chiding “liberals and Democrats...
By Jim Golby
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As election nears, Pentagon leaders’ goal of staying out of elections is tested
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Pentagon leaders faced renewed challenges in their attempt to steer clear of divisive election politics this week, as events during the final sprint toward the Nov. 3 polls un...
By Jim Golby
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Army will encourage urgency to find missing soldiers after high-profile disappearances
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The Army is planning to introduce a policy calling for more urgency in finding missing soldiers, top leaders said, after a handful of high-profile disappearances at Fort Hood ...
By Kayla M. Williams
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Top general did not give his consent to be used in Trump political ad
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President Donald Trump's campaign is running an online political ad that uses an image of his vice president, his Pentagon chief and his most senior military adviser watching ...
By Jim Golby
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First survey of West Point cadets' attitudes about civil-military relations raises concerns
In the midst of a challenging year for civil-military relations in America, the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, has allowed an unprecedented and timely research...
By Jim Golby
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The Army on its slight increase in recruiting women and minorities: Please clap
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The Army brought in slightly more women into the ranks last year then they have in years past, but service leaders acknowledged on Friday that there’s still work to be done. M...
By Emma Moore
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Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal announcement takes US officials by surprise
Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he wants to bring all US troops home from Afghanistan by Christmas – a plan that came as a surprise to administration officials and ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
