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Navy commander pulled from job in connection with SEAL candidate death
Capt. Brian Drechsler is being moved as Navy officials seek new leadership for the Naval Special Warfare Center.
By Lolita C. Baldor, AP
SEAL candidate dies after Hell Week test; a second is in the hospital
The Navy said neither SEAL candidate had experienced an accident or unusual incident during the five-and-a-half-day Hell Week.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
The price of valor
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.
By Roger J. Spiller, Military History Quarterly
Op-ed: Military can bridge gap between climate change doubters and believers
Rather than debating the causes of climate change or assigning blame, military leaders focus on how warming undermines security, and on practical steps to slow its advance and minimize damage.
By Michael Klare, Hampshire College
The US is bombing the hell out of the Taliban as munitions dropped reaches nearly 10-year high
According to U.S. Air Forces Central Command, U.S. aircraft dropped 7,423 munitions in 2019 — that’s the highest number of bombs released in nearly a decade.
By Shawn Snow
Plan to ban tobacco sales to anyone under 21 will hit the military too
The new rule is included in a must-pass budget bill expected to be voted on this week.
Audie Murphy made a name for himself in battle and on the screen
Audie Murphy was well-known as the most highly decorated American soldier of World War II
By Mark Grimsley
The US has ramped up its air campaign in Afghanistan to highest level in nine years
The U.S. dropped more munitions in Afghanistan in September than any other month since October 2010 when America had nearly 100,000 troops on the ground.
By Shawn Snow
Bolton critical of North Korea in first speech since ouster from Trump administration
Former national security adviser John Bolton gave a characteristically pessimistic outlook on the prospects for getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons as he made his first public appearance since he was ousted from his post by President Donald Trump.
How our recent Medal of Honor shows a weakness in military power
Without investment and new ways of thinking, our soldiers will neither dominate nor be feared in urban combat, the author of this commentary says.
By John Spencer
Why the Truman is back at sea, again
The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman put back to sea on Saturday, exactly three months after the ship and its strike group returned home.
By Mark D. Faram