At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020 several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn't giving any Three weeks before Christmas, in the piney woods outside of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a deer hunter.
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“At the beginning of the administration, President Biden established new interim guidance concerning the United States’ use of military force and related national security operations,” National Security Council (NSC) spokeswoman Emily Horne said.
Horne said that the purpose of the restrictions was to ensure that the president has “full visibility” on proposed, significant operations while the NSC staff leads a review of the legal and policy frameworks governing drone strikes. The review will also seek to ensure appropriate transparency measures, she said.
This move met with pushback from Republican representatives Mike Rogers of Alabama and Michael McCaul of Texas who criticized it as “yet another bureaucratic impediment that will give our enemies an advantage.” Rogers, the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, and McCaul, from the Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “While our operators wait for approval from Washington, terrorists will escape to plot an
The Life of a Soldier
Roman soldiers fighting against the Dacians by Nicolas Beatrizet, 1553.Credit.Heritage Art/Heritage Images, via Getty Images
By Thomas E. Ricks
In his encyclopedic
GLADIUS: The World of the Roman Soldier (University of Chicago, $30), Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military arm of the Roman Empire which was pretty much the only limb of government power outside Rome.
Rome’s soldiers were surprisingly literate, because the Roman Army emphasized precise record-keeping. They also were a remarkably diverse group. A document from Egypt that listed the birthplaces of 36 members of two legions had them coming from today’s central Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, France, Italy and Egypt itself. Some of the soldiers who died in Britain in the first century A.D. had been born in today’s Bulgaria, Spain, Hungary and Italy, according to their tombstones. The common soldier tended to remain with one legion for