Chelsea Manning is free today. Despite her sentence of 35 years in prison delivered in 2013 for giving “more than 700,000 government files to WikiLeaks, a gigantic leak that lifted the veil on American military and diplomatic activities around the world.”
Despite initial suspicion of exaggerated state media propaganda, observers say that the weekend missile test suggested a significant technological advancement.
In a rare and seemingly unprecedented move, the entire United States Senate has been called to the White House for a briefing on North Korea, Reuters reports. While briefing the legislature on foreign relations and matters of national security is not uncommon, this meeting is. Not only has the entire Senate been called, but the standard practice is for White House officials to go to the Senators, not the other way around.
This week, a discussion of the appropriate role of the United States in the world, specifically with regard to military intervention.
The United States Marine Corps is currently embroiled in a massive scandal that strikes at the heart of the U.S. military service and the trust the military establishment has built with the American people.
Louis’ story is a stark example of a country in ruin.
Today, we fast forward from the 2011 drawdown to an Iraq nearly free of US troops, and the situation that unfolded.
This young nurse may represent the best hope for changing a VA system that often appears too broken to save from itself.
In the baton pass from Barack Obama to President Trump, a veritable mountain of postponed, muddled and unsystematic military strategy in Iraq is a pressing issue that the new administration must tackle head-on.