The Army’s top officer for personnel will salute the Tuskegee Airmen on Veterans Day as he pushes for greater diversity in the military’s upper ranks.
Author: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY
Confederate names are being scrubbed from US military bases. The list of ideas to replace them is 30,000 deep.
Code Talkers, Medal of Honor recipient could replace Fort Hood, Fort Bragg and other bases named for Confederate officers who betrayed their oaths.
The storied, complicated legacy of Colin Powell’s diplomatic and military career – including his WMDs regret
Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of State, made the case for weapons of mass destruction in a 2003 UN speech leading to the invasion of Iraq.
As more and more troops die by suicide, the hardest question remains: Why?
Nowhere is the Pentagon’s suicide crisis more acute than among active-duty Army soldiers. Young, enlisted men remain at higher risk.
Pentagon: Ten civilians, no terrorists killed by US drone strike in Kabul
The strike occurred on Aug 29 near the airport during the final, chaotic days of the US evacuation of civilians and military retreat from Afghanistan.
What happened to US military equipment left behind in Afghanistan?
The U.S. military likely abandoned tens of millions of dollars’ worth of aircraft, armored vehicles and high-tech defensive systems in Afghanistan.
US likely to continue strikes against ISIS-K, even as challenges mount after Afghanistan exit
After the US completes its exit from Afghanistan by Aug. 31, intelligence leads will lessen and missions will have to be conducted from farther away.
Pentagon scrambles to evacuate Americans from US Embassy in Afghanistan as Taliban advances
A Pentagon spokesman described the mission of the infantry battalions as temporary and narrow. Security conditions in Kabul have deteriorated rapidly.
U.S. military airstrikes target militias backed by Iran in Syria, Iraq
The U.S. military launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias at three locations in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon announced Sunday evening.
‘Most humiliating punishment imaginable’: Black National Guardsman allegedly forced to wear heavy chain
As the military reckons with racism and extremism in its ranks, one story of the Maryland National Guard highlights the toll of discrimination.