Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart is the third general officer in the Air Force’s 76-year history and the second in the past three years to face court-martial.
A US Army general and a professor at the service’s West Point military academy conducted an unofficial probe into a whistleblower who criticized the US military and government online, an American news agency reported on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday that transfers decision-making power from defense commanders over to independent prosecutors in military sexual assault cases.
President Biden on Friday is poised to sign a new executive order that will clear the way for major changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice for the first time in decades, taking authority away from commanders in cases of sexual assault, rape and murder to make the chain of command independent. Biden’s signature…