Court rejects Trump’s transgender troop banby wpjljron
Monday, October 30th, 2017.Court rejects Trump’s transgender troop banThe Pentagon cannot enforce the administration’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military, according to a court decision that advocates called a “colossal victory.” | Getty By JACQUELINE KLIMAS 10/30/2017 01:08 PM EDT The Pentagon cannot enforce the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military, a federal court ruled in a […]
The Pentagon cannot enforce the administration’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military, according to a court decision that advocates called a “colossal victory.” | Getty
10/30/2017 01:08 PM EDT
When he resigned as defense secretary last December, Jim Mattis thought it might take two months to install a successor. That seemed terribly long at the time. Seven months later, the U.S. still has no confirmed defense chief even with the nation facing potential armed conflict with Iran. That’s the longest such stretch in Pentagon history. There is also no. texas Aug 25, 2018
As Sen. John McCain’s family announced that the ailing veteran is stopping treatment for brain cancer, the Army paid tribute Friday at the opening of a new warfare modernization headquarters in Texas that he played a driving role in creating.
May 3, 2021
A US Army soldier previously under consideration for military honors for his actions during a lethal skirmish with a Syrian pro-regime militia last year is now facing criminal charges over the incident.
The US military s allegations against Sgt. 1st Class Robert Nicoson of the 82nd Airborne Division include two counts of failure to obey a lawful order, two counts of reckless endangerment, one count of communicating threats and three counts of obstructing justice. The case was first reported by Army Times.
Nicoson was the lead noncommissioned officer in a convoy of some 16 soldiers passing through a checkpoint controlled by the pro-regime National Defense Forces militia near Tal al-Zahab in August.
Ten Years After Bin Laden, We Still Need Better Intelligence Sharing
Leaders should still apply the lessons we learned, when contending with China and Russia. May 1, 2021 08:00 AM ET
It was a typical Sunday afternoon at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida. As the senior intelligence officer for the command, I was at work and we were monitoring the conclusion of an operation in Yemen. As I left the small operations room, I saw Gen. Jim Mattis, the CENTCOM commander, and our operations officer, Vice Adm. Kevin “Kid” Donegan, at the end of the hallway. As I approached General Mattis, he looked at me in a very factual and unemotional way, and said, “We just got bin Laden.”
US cutting counterterror forces in Africa
By ROBERT BURNSNovember 15, 2018 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon is reducing its counterterrorism forces in Africa and studying whether to make similar moves elsewhere in the world as part of a broad effort to shift American military focus toward what it calls threats from Russia and China.
The planned 10 percent cut from U.S. Africa Command’s total force of 7,200 troops will be carried out over several years, the Pentagon said in a brief statement. It said the reductions will not touch military operations in Libya, Somalia or Djibouti. They will be focused on countries in West Africa; the Pentagon did not cite any specific countries as examples, but the U.S. has relatively small military groups operating in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and elsewhere.