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The Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated on Nov. 11, 1993. - The presence of Generals Mattis, McMaster and Kelly in the Trump inner circle lends some reassurance of professional advice.
- As Election Day nears, the president hit the campaign trail, but his party largely wishes he stayed home.
- Panetta has paved the way for Hillary Clinton to become the candidate with a warrior's heart, writes David Horsey.
- While the president has faced great challenges, he has dealt with them only half way, writes Jules Witcover.
- President Obama is right to beware the military-industrial complex
- Why do departing White House aides always make their former bosses look like idiots?
- Decision four years ago by Obama set the stage for ISIS and much suffering in Iraq
- When Americans question the value of U.S. foreign aid, one only has to point to the explosions in Israel's skies to demonstrate its worth. The result of the Iron Dome air defense system in action, these blasts occur when there is a successful interception of a rocket fired toward an Israeli population center from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Iron Dome is a uniquely Israeli creation, but American foreign military financing has been crucial in the expansion of this system to provide adequate
- Why is the CIA trying so hard to hide its alleged mistreatment of terrorist detainees from Congress?
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- Former defense secretaries thought Syria mishandled but Sun doesn't mention it
- A female midshipman who says she was sexually assaulted by three members of the Naval Academy football team is scheduled to testify at a preliminary hearing Wednesday.
- The Naval Academy is investigating the alleged sexual assault last year of a female midshipman by three members of the football team, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.
- President Barack Obama will return to Annapolis to give the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy his year, the first time he has spoken to a graduating class of midshipmen since 2009, the White House said Monday.
- The vast majority of civilian defense employees face a 20 percent pay cut from April through September if looming budget reductions aren't averted, a move that will hit Maryland harder than almost every other state, the Pentagon warned Wednesday.
- Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the former commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan whose nomination to lead NATO was delayed last year while investigators probed his e-mails to a Florida socialite, has retired from the military.
- Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about steep impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result.
- Rep. Steny Hoyer called plans to extend some benefits to same-sex partners of military personnel ¿an important step in the right direction¿ ¿ but said more change is needed.
- President Obama has demonstrated that he, not the military and not the State Department, decides when the U.S. becomes involved in armed conflicts abroad.
- Jonah Goldberg says 'Zero Dark Thirty' provides plenty of fodder for politicians and their agendas.
- A former Naval Academy instructor will be court-martialed for an alleged sexual assault on a female midshipman, an academy spokeswoman said Thursday.
- Jonah Goldberg says allowing women in combat is a huge change that should have been the subject of a national debate
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- When Maryland National Guard Capt. Cara Kupcho first enlisted in the military 18 years ago, she wanted to drive a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. "I like things that go boom," she explained Thursday. "I like tanks."
- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the long-standing ban on women serving in direct combat, Pentagon officials said, opening hundreds of thousands of military jobs previously closed to female service members.
