WASHINGTON — As the Pentagon withdraws from Afghanistan — and more than a decade of ground war — the services have begun an internal battle over the kind of military needed to protect America in the future and the money needed to buy it.
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The Pentagon says the number of Afghan soldiers killed in fighting with the Taliban during this summer's fighting season rose nearly 80 percent compared with the same time period last year.
Continue reading >>The detention of four American military personnel in Libya on Friday was preceded by a confrontation at a checkpoint in which gunshots were fired and a vehicle was damaged, a witness in Libya and an Obama administration official said on Saturday.
Continue reading >>It was Sept. 9, 2012. Gathered on folding chairs in a banquet hall by the Mediterranean, the Libyans warned of rising threats against Americans from extremists in Benghazi. One militia leader, with a long beard and mismatched military fatigues, mentioned
Continue reading >>A U.S. government spokeswoman denied Tuesday that Washington will consider revising a bilateral agreement on the operations of U.S. military facilities in Japan as sought by Okinawa.
Continue reading >>The 61st Airlift Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., received another C-130J Super Hercules that was ferried from the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] plant here by a U.S. Air Force crew, Dec. 12, 2013.
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