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The tears streamed down Alix Idrache's face. In the photograph, the streaks reach almost to the high collar of his dress gray uniform.

When female midshipmen in the Naval Academy Class of 2016 stride out onto the field at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium for commencement in May, they'll be wearing trousers, not skirts, officials said Tuesday.

In a Columbia office with a Jolly Roger hanging from the ceiling and internet cables sprouting madly from the desks, a team of National Security Agency hackers was trying Wednesday to take down networks set up by military cadets.

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

The Bush administration withheld from troops information about old bombs and rockets in Iraq

Teach math like the military does

The medical community has learned much about preventing epidemics since the deadly influenza spread of 1918, making an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. less likely.

President Obama is right to beware the military-industrial complex

Though recognition that all are equal remains an ideal, that ideal is closer to being realized today in the U.S. than ever before, thanks to sacrifices and heroics by the likes of Sgt. Hilton on and off the field of battle.

The U.S. agreement to stay in the country beyond 2014 isn't a blank check for an indefinite U.S. troop presence there

The Wine Bin in historic Ellicott City will host its last outdoor summer movie, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (PG), on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m.

Congress and the president must not let politics dictate our strategy for combating ISIS — and they must make sure the public understands what's at stake.

"Blue-Eyed Boy" recounts how Timberg rebuilt his life after being severely injured in a land mine explosion in Vietnam

President Obama unfairly criticized for his approach to combating ISIS

There were few surprises for local colleges and universities in the oft-quoted U.S. News and World Report annual rankings released Tuesday.

Obama must be just as cautious in what he says about U.S. military strategy toward ISIS as he is executing it.

Sickened by the murders of American journalists at the hands of terrorists, local Muslim groups banded together Wednesday to condemn the actions of Islamic State militants.

The president can no longer set any foreign policy limits that restrict his options.

Newspaper's efforts to pressure Freeman Hrabowski to become chancellor are inappropriate

Lt. Col. K. Weedon Gallagher has graduated from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks and earned a master's degree in strategic studies.

Local police departments in Maryland have received more than $12 million in excess equipment from the U.S. military — from a $400,000 "mine resistant vehicle" to a set of a dozen spoons valued at $3.06 apiece — under a federal program that has come under bipartisan scrutiny.

Two women were strangled to death, stuffed in garbage cans and discarded in the trash of a Joppatowne grocery store 25 years ago this week

Where's the outrage over radical Islam's slaughter of Christians?

The U.S. can't stand by as ISIS militants overrun Iraq and slaughter thousands of innocent civilians in its drive to impose an extreme form of Islamic law

The prospect of Harford County's economy losing in excess of 4,000 military and defense contracting jobs associated with various activities at Aberdeen Proving Ground is as unsavory a scenario that could be visited on the local economy.

Misconceptions about Israel's war in Gaza

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene had served more than three decades in uniform without a combat tour when he got the assignment last year: He was wanted in Kabul to help train the Afghan National Security Forces.

Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. official to die in Afghanistan since 2001, spent about four years leading two major organizations at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

The long-planned site is to be based near Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Southern Maryland, long a key research site for the Navy

Cardin, Mikulski should call for ending U.S. aid to Israel

Thousands of American Jews have signed up to fight for Israel since the creation of the modern state in 1948. The Israel Defense Forces puts the number now on active duty at about 1,000, including 20 from Baltimore.

War is still not over for some families whose loved ones were classified as missing in action or as prisoners of war who never returned home. In the Korean War, which ended 61 years ago this week, 8,000 service members were classified as POW/MIA, and the recovery of their remains has been stalled.

Brian Power-Waters, whose boyhood dream of becoming an aviator led to a long career as a military and commercial pilot and, at age 78, took him back to the skies in ultralight planes and hang gliders, died July 21 after surgery at Shore Medical Center in Chestertown. He was 91.

Barack Obama may need to put a bit of John Wayne in his foreign policy words right now.

When your father's a pilot, your paternal uncles are pilots and both your grandfathers are pilots, you likely grow up with hopes of someday being a, well, pilot.

The violence the children are fleeing in Central America is not our problem. It was our problem in the 1980s, but Americans have overwhelmingly decided that it isn't our problem now.

Over the past six months, Harbaugh has stoically moved on from the least successful year of his head-coaching career. He overhauled his coaching staff, executed a review of the organization's ways and while privately fuming, he served as a public supporter to several of his troubled players.

Terence T. Finn, a retired NASA executive whose passion for military history led him to write four books on the subject, died June 27 of complications from a rare blood disorder. The Chestertown resident was 71.

Democrats have convictions, albeit the wrong ones; Republicans need to answer with a call to restore what is great about America, Cal Thomas writes.

Looking out toward the shore of Bush River while traveling on Route 40, just south of Aberdeen, is a community that made history 75 years ago. We used to call it Belcamp; now it is called Riverside.

Obama administration's choice to engage, not escalate, in Syria and Iraq is the only viable response to complex problem

APG tethered blimps necessary to spot potential rogue missile with a nuclear payload