U.S. Military

The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.

In disputed waters, Chinese and American vessels vie for dominance.

Every fall, U.S. and South Korean forces conduct drills in waters shared by North Korea and China. This year, I saw the exercises up close.

The terrorist group has outlasted the trillion-dollar U.S. investment in Afghanistan since 9/11.

The former general defends Afghan troops and blames the speed of the withdrawal for the government’s collapse.

In Kabul, it is increasingly clear that the U.S. departure is so rushed and poorly planned that it will be impossible to evacuate everyone at risk of Taliban reprisal.

Inside the extraordinary final-days conflict between the former President and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Critics be damned, the President is ending the Forever War waged by Bush, Obama, and Trump in Afghanistan.

Talking threats, foreign and domestic, with Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The detectives who investigate fake stories of military service use many tools, including shame.

In his commencement speech, the President failed to address the nationwide protests over racial injustice, the coronavirus pandemic, and his own deepening strains with the military.

A week of protest, pandemic, and political unrest in the capital.

The new satire of the military-industrial complex is perhaps best appreciated as a gallery of cherished character actors, as it struggles to escape the gravity of its own premise.

The nurse as major general, the truck driver as lieutenant, and the rest of the new military hierarchy.

Donald Trump is trying to conflate a patriotic celebration with his reëlection campaign.

“Regrettably, we have no choice but to issue thousands of deferments,” a Pentagon spokesman said.