(Reuters) – Iran has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qasem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency. The United States killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, […]
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The White House has denied that President Donald Trump was briefed on a reported finding that Russian military intelligence offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Neither Trump nor Vice President Mike Pence was briefed on the alleged Russian bounty […]
Regardless of who wins the presidential election, events at home and across the world will mean changes for the Defense Department. Here are a few of the challenges Trump or Biden will have to face.
President Trump surveyed the crowd at a raucous political rally in Nashville two years ago and pointed toward his mustachioed national security advisor, “the great John Bolton.” “They think he’s so nasty and so tough that I have to hold him back, OK?” Trump said, paying Bolton his ultimate compliment of bare-knuckle tactics to pursue […]
The book, scheduled to hit store shelves on Tuesday, is already in the hands of media organizations.
The statue toppling in Washington took place at the end of a day when thousands of people marched through U.S. cities in Juneteenth observances commemorating the abolition of slavery.
Editor’s Note: This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. Civil-military relations in the United States are in a serious state of disrepair, driven in profound measure by presidential politicization of the military and the military’s attendant willingness to let itself be politicized. The Trump presidency, now almost four years […]
(Reuters) – United States President Donald Trump has said he will not watch National Football League (NFL) or U.S. soccer team matches if players do not stand for the national anthem. The U.S. Soccer Federation last week said it had dropped its requirement that players stand during the anthem, saying the policy was wrong and […]
President Donald Trump delivered a message of unity to graduating West Point cadets and the nation amid growing concerns of civil-military relations in the United States. Speaking at the graduation of 1,110 new officers from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in upstate New York on Saturday, Trump emphasized America’s core values and the immutable […]
"Once they leave U.S. control, we lose our ability to influence how and where they are used."
"My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics."
President Donald Trump has quashed efforts to rename 10 Army bases, which had been named for Confederate leaders.
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Business Insider. A bill that would prohibit the president or any other federal agency from using nuclear weapons to alter “weather patterns or addressing climate change,” was introduced in Congress on June 1, The Washington Post reported. The proposal is part of the Climate Change and Hurricane Correlation […]
Both Republican and Democratic defense officials have signed an open letter urging President Donald Trump to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act, which would allow active-duty troops to assist the National Guard along with local and federal law enforcement agencies to curb civil unrest
Since the earliest days of his presidency, President Donald Trump has showered “his generals” with an absurd amount of adoration, transforming America’s military brass from mere advisors to symbols of legitimacy and trust within his administration. But in the protests that have followed the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd at the hands of […]
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis denounced President Donald Trump in a statement released to reporters, describing him as a threat to the constitution.
Last Friday morning, director Spike Lee woke up at his home in New York City and surveyed the day’s fresh horrors in a world that had come to seem at once both unrecognizable and all too recognizable. A deadly pandemic. Forty million Americans unemployed. And now, in the wake of the death of George Floyd […]
Army Gen. Mark Mlley’s role as a military advisor to the president has not changed and governors continue to have control over the National Guardsmen, who have been mobilized during the unrest.
Of the 16 affected cadets, 14 tested positive for the antibody which indicates they contracted the virus and recovered from it.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. government will designate anti-fascist group Antifa as a terrorist organization, a move that legal experts say would be hard to execute. The announcement, made by Trump on Twitter, comes amid violent nationwide protests about police brutality following the death of a black man in […]
The US military could quickly deploy troops to Minnesota if they are requested, Trump said on Saturday.
Trump appeared to indicate that US troops activated for riot control would be authorized to use deadly force against civilians with this tweet: 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts.'
More than 40,000 National Guardsmen taking part in the COVID-19 response will now be eligible for federal benefits.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed his desire for a full military withdrawal from Afghanistan but added that he had not set a target date.
The Trump administration reportedly discussed conducting the first nuclear weapons test for the United States in decades.
