Pete Hegseth has seen the enemy and it is American liberals
In “The War on Warriors,” published last year, the nominee to head the Pentagon lashes out at “social justice saboteurs” and ...
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Blinken says he has 'no apologies' for ending America's 'longest war in Afghanistan'
They don’t want us in war. We went through 20 years where we had hundreds of thousands of Americans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. People were tired of that, understandably. Well, when ...
The National Interest2d
The Iraq War Was the Conflict No One Prepared For
And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...
Stars and Stripes12d
For Trump’s national security adviser, Afghanistan still looms large
Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, during a deployment as a Green Beret to ...
U.S. News & World Report15d
Pete Hegseth Wants Afghan War Accountability. Just for Democrats.
Who's to Blame for the Afghan War? The Iraq and Afghanistan veteran President-elect Donald Trump picked to be defense secretary, Fox television personality Pete Hegseth, got very worked up at his ...
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Military Fatality Rates (By Cause) in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Measure of Hostilities
Aim: Based on around 500 coalition deaths, identify major causes in Iraq and Afghanistan. For consecutive periods (1: May 1 to September 17, 2006, 2: September 18, 2006 to February 4, 2007 ...
Some military officers worry Pete Hegseth could turn a blind eye to U.S. war crimes
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has defended U.S. troops accused or convicted of war crimes in Afghanistan ...
Long War Journal2d
Iranian-backed militias in Iraq face an uncertain future
Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, collectively part of the Hashd al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), face increasing calls to ...
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ISIS increasingly unopposed following US withdrawal from Afghanistan, collapse of Syria
The threat posed by the Islamic State has once again hit the headlines following the New Year's Day attack on a crowded street in New Orleans on Wednesday by a man who may have ties to the ...
The New York Times23d
U.K. Special Forces Allowed to ‘Get Away With Murder’ in Afghanistan, Inquiry Told
SAS troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2009, many fresh from the war in Iraq, and took over the mission of hunting Taliban militants from the SBS. Many of the concerns about their methods were ...
The Hill23d
Ukraine isn’t fighting a ‘forever war.’ The US shouldn’t forsake it.
an ethos they uphold with soldiers of other nations — as in Afghanistan and Iraq — who patrol alongside them as partners. Since Trump avoided military service during the Vietnam War ...
The New York Times26d
Guantánamo Convict Sues to Stop U.S. Plan to Send Him to Prison in Iraq
In 2022, he pleaded guilty to war crimes charges ... s Army for what became the first U.S. invasion of Iraq, and then settled in Afghanistan. In 2003 and 2004, early in the U.S. invasion, Taliban ...