Military pauses Osprey flights again after near crash
It's the latest setback for the embattled aircraft, whose safety problems have grown and which lawmakers recently urged be grounded once more.
By Tara Copp, AP
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Army’s blunt trauma tests on pigs, cadavers may aid body armor designs
Grisly though some of the experiments might be, they get closer to simulating the real effects of body armor blows on live personnel.
By Hope Hodge Seck
How will a withdrawal from Afghanistan impact the military?
The combat experience gained in Afghanistan is one of the impacts a full withdrawal will have on U.S. forces, says the author of this commentary.
By Nathaniel Lowry
Special Operations Command chief: Afghans need US troops to counter Taliban
Gen. Richard Clarke echoed the sentiments of other military leaders, saying it’s clear that the Taliban has not upheld its commitment to reduce violence in Afghanistan.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
US presents warring Afghan sides with draft peace agreement
The document outlines the terms of a cease-fire and its enforcement, calls for the protection of the rights of women, children and minorities and envisions a truth and reconciliation commission aimed at healing 42 years of conflict.
US attack risks ‘full-fledged war,’ says adviser to Iran’s leader
An adviser to Iran's supreme leader warned against any American military escalation in Trump’s final weeks in office.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Here’s what retired Marine Corps commandant Gen. Krulak thinks about November’s election
The 31st commandant of the United States Marine Corps asks: Are we still a nation that believes that character counts?
By Gen. Charles Krulak (ret.)
Gen.(tlemen’s Quarterly) Jim Mattis, the patron saint of ... modeling?
“I did this one to help a vet in his business start up,” Mattis said. “Nothing more to it.”
By J.D. Simkins
Support for full withdrawal from Afghanistan grows: Poll
Nearly three-fourths of veterans surveyed said the time to end operations in Afghanistan is now.
Esper says US military not withdrawing from AFRICOM
“But I had the opportunity to tell, again, to mention again that the U.S. support is critical to our operations and that its reduction would severely limit our effectiveness against terrorists.”
‘The Last Full Measure’ chronicles a 30-year fight to get 1 pararescueman the Medal of Honor
“The Last Full Measure” is now playing in theaters nationwide.
By J.D. Simkins
Corps issues new IED detectors more capable of identifying buried command wires
Combat engineers, infantrymen, military police, artillery and light anti-aircraft defense Marines will get the detector later in fiscal year 2020.
By Philip Athey