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Why the 82nd Airborne is directing airfield security for Afghanistan evacuation
The division regularly trains on seizing and securing airfields.
By Davis Winkie
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US military hands over Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years
At its peak around 2012, Bagram Airfield saw more than 100,000 U.S. troops pass through its sprawling compound barely an hour’s drive north of Kabul.
US forces pack up in Somalia for elsewhere in east Africa
U.S. troops pulling out of Somalia aren’t leaving the continent, or even the region, the general who leads U.S. Africa Command said in a statement this weekend.
By Kyle Rempfer
Rockets fired at Bagram, no casualties reported
Five rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield on Saturday, and Afghan police defused seven more.
‘High-ranking’ al-Shabab leader killed in U.S. strike
“This individual was a key leader in the al-Shabaab organization," Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, the AFRICOM commander said in a news release. “He was violent, ruthless, and responsible for the loss of many innocent lives. His removal makes Somalia and neighboring countries safer.”
By Shawn Snow
Was Iwo Jima worth the cost?
After a staggering loss of life on the island, American military leaders scrambled to justify the invasion
By Robert S. Burrell, MHQ — The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Pentagon adds to list of bases that can house passengers quarantined for coronavirus
The facilities would be a "tertiary" choice for housing quarantined passengers after Department of Health and Human Services sites fill
By Patricia Kime
‘Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,’ four-star general says
The general helming U.S. Africa Command pushed back against allegations that he was killed in an attack in Manda Bay, Kenya.
By Kyle Rempfer
Explainer: Inside the lawful killing of Qassim Suleimani
An Iranian general, the Japanese architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump.
By Capt. Lawrence Brennan (retired)
Air Force Academy airfield named in honor of Tuskegee Airmen commander who later became a general
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the legendary Tuskegee Airman and World War II pilot, will be celebrated today as the Air Force Academy names its airfield after the ground-breaking aviator.
By Kent Miller
Lost for 78 years, a Pearl Harbor sailor finally comes home
Fair winds and following seas, Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Ulis Claud Steely.
By Sarah Ladd, Louisville Courier Journal
World War II diary: ‘I will fight to the last.’
A Japanese officer’s final words recall the bloody New Georgia Campaign as American forces closed in.
By Jack H. McCall, Military History Quarterly