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Fighting to go home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 years later
Insider attacks against US troops in Afghanistan have dropped to a historic low. Here’s why
The Boogaloo Bois have guns, criminal records, and military training. Now they want to overthrow the government
Trump to leave office with vastly more troops in DC than in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria combined
Here are the current and former military leaders blasting Trump over the Capitol riots
Do Americans really care about war crimes?
Here are the new toys that Congress is giving the Pentagon for Christmas
How to build more resilient and innovative US special operations teams
VA secretary focused on smearing woman who said she was sexually assaulted in a VA hospital, probe finds
‘Modicum of success’ is the new ‘Mission Accomplished’ for Afghanistan
224 killed, 186 aircraft lost. Military pilots worry about being ‘the next accident’
How Marine Corps culture silenced a sexual assault victim
The unanswered questions from Australia’s harrowing war crimes report
Acting SecDef Miller is rewriting the history of the Vietnam War as the US looks for the exit in Afghanistan
US drawdown in Afghanistan is wrong call, says commander who claimed we were on the ‘road to winning’ in 2013
‘Everybody we deal with is trained to kill’ — Why we don’t see military police brutality
Why the US military would welcome a decisive 2020 election win
Special Forces needs to go back to basics to win against China and Russia
Marine veterans say sinking amphibious assault vehicles are ‘death traps’ following deadly accident
Spy plane sent to monitor George Floyd protests near home of California National Guard chief
Army National Guardsmen are working at election polling sites out of uniform
Most Americans have no idea how deeply entwined white supremacist groups are in the military
Police killings are more likely among law enforcement agencies that receive military gear, data shows
China is preparing to field a third aircraft carrier. Here’s why they’re no match for US flattops
What leaders can do now to strengthen US special operations forces
How Trump fell out of love with his generals — and why the feeling is mutual
The US is preparing for a fight with China in the Pacific. Here’s how Army special operators will fit in
The US is preparing for a fight with China in the Pacific. Here’s how Army special operators will fit in
6 big takeaways from the Navy’s full investigation into the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s COVID-19 outbreak
6 big takeaways from the Navy’s full investigation into the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s COVID-19 outbreak
Nobody seems to care about reports Trump called fallen US troops ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’
US service members battling racism in the ranks report a high barrier to justice
Why the military supports Trump less than previous Republican presidential candidates
Trump has accused US military leaders of doing exactly what his administration has done all along
China has major shipbuilding advantage over the US — and that may give it the edge in the next big war
Why the Air Force’s aging fleet of Cold War bombers is the US’s best hope against China
As Trump shakes up America’s military footprint in Europe, the US and Russia are making moves in the high north
North Korea was Trump’s chief foreign policy boast. Things have only gotten worse on his watch
3 years after the Fitzgerald and McCain collisions, the Navy’s surface warfare community shows few signs of change
What the Russian bounties story reveals about the limits of human intelligence collection
The deadly explosion in Beirut highlights a danger potentially lurking in some of the world’s ports
How the VA is failing to track veterans burn pit claims
No, that mushroom cloud in Beirut doesn’t indicate a nuclear bomb went off
The Marine Corps plan to ditch its tanks could spell bad news for the Army, experts say
The lies and mistakes that led the US into Iraq, laid out in a new book
The US is looking away from the Middle East, but it’s keeping a wary eye on what China is doing there
The White House accidentally made a strong case to strip Confederate names from US military bases
Why did Australian special forces pose with a Confederate flag in Afghanistan?
Here’s what it’s like to put up with ‘just joking’ racism in the military
The Bonhomme Richard fire raises questions about whether the Navy learned anything from its last ship fire
How China is expanding its amphibious forces to challenge the US well beyond Asia
75 years ago today, the Trinity atomic bomb test ushered in the era of nuclear warfare
USS Bonhomme Richard, its fate uncertain, would be one of largest ships Navy has lost outside of combat
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pentagon is cutting its chemical and biological defense programs
India’s deadly showdown with China could lead to rising tensions at sea
The US military is losing the sniper war against Russia
Russia is trying to lure Trump into a dangerous prisoner swap over a Marine vet, intelligence officials say
The surge nobody’s talking about: the US war in Somalia
Here’s what a war between nuclear-armed China and India might look like
Meet the ‘Boogaloo boys,’ the violent extremists attracting members of the US military
After fatal jet crash, the pilots were blamed. Then the Air Force banned the flight maneuver
Kim Jong Un has quietly built a 7,000-man cyber army that gives North Korea an edge nuclear weapons don’t
US civil-military relations: a flawed deal in desperate need of repair
Why fighter fuel range could be the Navy’s biggest weakness in a war with China
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