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• Maryland

Dayhoff: Vietnam Women's Memorial underscores renewed meaning of Veterans Day

The Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated on Nov. 11, 1993.

• Opinion

Witcover: Trump's generals add stability to administration

The presence of Generals Mattis, McMaster and Kelly in the Trump inner circle lends some reassurance of professional advice.

• Maryland

Climate change is no hoax

• Maryland

Review finds CIA deception

• Opinion

Old Obama magic elusive

As Election Day nears, the president hit the campaign trail, but his party largely wishes he stayed home.

By Jules Witcover

Oct 27, 2014

• Opinion

Is Panetta's hit on Obama a boon for Hillary?

Panetta has paved the way for Hillary Clinton to become the candidate with a warrior's heart, writes David Horsey.

• Opinion

Obama's cloudy legacy [Commentary]

While the president has faced great challenges, he has dealt with them only half way, writes Jules Witcover.

• Opinion

Obama's cloudy legacy [Commentary]

• Opinion

Obama is right to beware the military-industrial complex [Letter]

President Obama is right to beware the military-industrial complex

• Opinion

Obama is right to beware the military-industrial complex [Letter]

• Opinion

Why do departing White House aides always make their former bosses look like idiots? [Letter]

Why do departing White House aides always make their former bosses look like idiots?

• Leon Panetta

Why do departing White House aides always make their former bosses look like idiots? [Letter]

• Opinion

Iraq was lost by Obama [Letter]

Decision four years ago by Obama set the stage for ISIS and much suffering in Iraq

• Opinion

U.S. aid enabled 'Iron Dome' [Commentary]

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

• Opinion

A tortuous debate [Editorial]

Why is the CIA trying so hard to hide its alleged mistreatment of terrorist detainees from Congress?

• Medical Research

A tortuous debate [Editorial]

• Opinion

Obama makes America weak [Letter]

Obama makes America weak

• Barack Obama

Obama makes America weak [Letter]

• Crime

Military sexual assault victims break the silence

• Maryland

Statue honoring women soldiers unveiled in Virginia

• Maryland

Michael Zimmer: Election a time for accountability

• Opinion

Sun silent on Gates, Panetta Syria policy critique

Former defense secretaries thought Syria mishandled but Sun doesn't mention it

• Opinion

Sun silent on Gates, Panetta Syria policy critique

• Anne Arundel

Midshipman to testify on alleged sex assault by Navy football players

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.

• Maryland

Three Naval Academy football players investigated in alleged sexual assault on female midshipman

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.

• Anne Arundel

Three Naval Academy football players investigated in alleged sexual assault on female midshipman

• Hillary Clinton

Bad faith and Benghazi

• Maryland

Margaret Carlson: The sex scandel that plagues the military

• Politics

Obama to speak at U.S. Naval Academy commencement

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.

• Politics

Obama to speak at U.S. Naval Academy commencement

• Defense

Big pay cut contemplated for civilian defense workers

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.

• John Allen

In surprise move, General Allen retires from military

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.

• Afghanistan

In surprise move, General Allen retires from military

• Politics and Government

Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings

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.

• Politics

New Pentagon policy on same-sex benefits 'encouraging,' Hoyer says; more change needed

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.

• Opinion

Obama the decider

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.

• Syria

Obama the decider

• Politics

New Pentagon policy on same-sex benefits 'encouraging,' Hoyer says; more change needed

• Opinion

Torture helped get bin Laden?

Jonah Goldberg says 'Zero Dark Thirty' provides plenty of fodder for politicians and their agendas.

• Opinion

Torture helped get bin Laden?

• Sexual Assault

Former Naval Academy instructor to be court-martialed

A former Naval Academy instructor will be court-martialed for an alleged sexual assault on a female midshipman, an academy spokeswoman said Thursday.

• Opinion

Soldier girl blues

Jonah Goldberg says allowing women in combat is a huge change that should have been the subject of a national debate

• Opinion

Soldier girl blues

• Sexual Misconduct

Former Naval Academy instructor to be court-martialed

• Opinion

Women in combat a bad idea

Allowing women to serve in combat is a bad idea

• Leon Panetta

Women in combat a bad idea

• Armed Forces

Women in combat — 'It's going to level the playing field'

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."

• Latest

Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Thursday

• Leon Panetta

Women in combat — 'It's going to level the playing field'

• Defense

Pentagon lifting ban on women in combat

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.