Editorial
President Trump's various claims about NATO proved questionable, at best, but the final one - that the alliance is stronger than ever - is awfully hard to believe.
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Baltimore City
The Army general in charge of Afghanistan as President Trump revamps the strategy there was in the same Gilman class that produced Kevin Kamenetz and Robert Ehrlich
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Editorial
NATO allies aren't quite the freeloaders on military spending that Donald Trump claims
Op-ed
President Donald Trump's sudden foreign-policy pivot, from "America First" to international engagement through military action and re-embracing NATO, may have
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Op-ed
How did the "growing trust" that Russian President Vladimir Putin once said marked his "working and personal relationship with President Obama" change into today's deep distrust and saber-rattling?
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Op-ed
Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are "founders of ISIS" is not only a good example of his reckless fear-mongering but also his complete lack of understanding about true threats to national security.
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Carroll County Times Opinion
Let's begin with an assertion: Vladimir Putin does not have the United States' best interests at heart. It's fair to say that Putin believes what's bad for the U.S. is good for Russia. His actions in Ukraine, with Syrian despot Assad, and toward NATO all provide ample evidence that he is not our nation's friend. Putin is all for the breakup of the European Union; he sees weakening of economic, political and social stability of European democracies as a very good thing for Russia.
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Maryland
A unit of veteran Maryland Army National Guardsmen is taking on a new mission to help lead and train NATO special operations forces as demand for the alliance's commandos continues to grow.
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Editorial
In the wake of the Paris attacks, the U.S. must act more aggressively to halt Syria's slide into chaos
Editorial
The Obama administration must not allow Russian military planes to interfere with the U.S.-led air campaign over Syria
Op-ed
President Putin's decision to deploy aircraft in Syria and bomb opponents of President Assad may be "a recipe for disaster" as President Obama asserts, but it neatly exploits U.S. and western European vulnerabilities in the region. And it gives Russia leverage to undermine NATO and destabilize the oil-rich Middle East.
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Op-ed
While the president has faced great challenges, he has dealt with them only half way, writes Jules Witcover.
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Editorial
The U.S. agreement to stay in the country beyond 2014 isn't a blank check for an indefinite U.S. troop presence there
Editorial
President Obama's plan for defeating the Islamic State will require a sustained commitment on the part of the U.S. and its allies
Members of a Maryland Army National Guard unit returning from Afghanistan got their official welcome home Saturday at the Baltimore War Memorial as part of the Army National Guard's Freedom Salute campaign, with remarks of thanks, including a few words from former Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis.
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Editorial
President Obama needed to put Russia on notice that NATO is resolved to resist its aggression in Ukraine
Readers Respond
We need Russia as a partner, not as a punching bag
Opinion
The U.S. needs Russia. This may sound peculiar coming from a person who spent 25 years at the NSA, almost half of those fighting communism. But our approach to Russia since the end of the Cold War has been unimaginative and aggressive. Politicians in Washington put on their Cold-War glasses any time Russia makes noise. It's time to archive those in the Smithsonian.
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Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, who was shot to death last week as he visited Afghanistan's national military academy in Kabul, was laid to rest Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Md. National Guard making final deployment to Afghanistan
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Op-ed
The Ukraine crisis owes its roots to a deal America made and broke with the recently deceased Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
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Opinion
Now is the time for the U.S. and its allies to strike back in Iraq
Readers Respond
Obama puts U.S. security at risk by not committing military forces to Afghanistan after 2016
As Russia's actions in Ukraine rattle its neighbors, the Maryland National Guard is affirming its decades-long partnership with Estonia.
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Editorial
Sunday's elections could help stabilize the country if the new government vigorously attacks its long-standing culture of corruption
Politics
A push by congressional Republicans Friday to increase pressure on the Obama White House over the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi has put Baltimore Rep. Elijah E. Cummings back on the job as one of the administration's leading defenders.
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Readers Respond
President Barack Obama's foot-dragging on the Keystone XL pipeline is a sop to wealthy donors.
Editorial
President Putin doesn't realize how much leverage the West has over Russia's economy; it's up to the U.S. and its allies to convince him he doesn't want to find out the hard way
Op-ed
The conventional view in Washington is that Mr. Putin is a belligerent authoritarian intent upon expanding Russia's borders and confronting the West. What the White House refuses to acknowledge, however, is that the Russian leader is simply acting in what he believes to be his country's best interest.
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Harford County
At the end of January, a team of chemists and engineers left Aberdeen Proving Ground for the Mediterranean Sea to lead the historic destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. More than two months later, they're still waiting for the mission to start.
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Op-ed
Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians are justifiably concerned about the Russian invasion. But their fight, in its narrowest terms, is not our fight.
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Editorial
Russia's land grab in the Crimea has created the most serious European security crisis since the end of the Cold War.
Obituaries
Georges R. Garinther, a retired Army civilian engineer who studied ordnance noise and once examined the acoustics of the John F. Kennedy assassination, died of complications from heart disease and Alzheimer's disease March 9 at his daughter's Havre de Grace home. He was 79.
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Opinion
Dispute over Ukraine is a matter for Europeans, not U.S.
Opinion
The U.S. has no obligation to help Ukraine
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