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15,851 U.S. Service Members Have Died Since 2006. Here’s Why…

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Since 2006, 15,851 active-duty personnel and mobilized reservists have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. But only 28 percent of those deaths came from going to war, a stark reminder of the danger service members face even away from the battlefield. The numbers come from a new report by the Congressional Research Service, […]

Afghan Drug Trade Thrives Despite Costly U.S. Counternarcotics Campaign…

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The drug trade in Afghanistan, which helps fund the insurgency and impedes reconstruction efforts, has grown stronger despite billions of dollars spent by the U.S. to fight it, a government watchdog said Thursday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in a report that the U.S. needed a new strategy to fight […]

Pentagon Poised to Take Over Security Clearance Checks…

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The Defense Department is poised to take over background investigations for the federal government, using increased automation and high-tech analysis to tighten controls and tackle an enormous backlog of workers waiting for security clearances, according to U.S. officials. The change aims to fix a system whose weaknesses were exposed by the case of a Navy […]

A Guide to the Pentagon’s Shadowy Network of Bases in Africa…

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On Feb. 27, 2017, American special operations forces and their partners kicked off the Flintlock training exercise at sites across North and West Africa. More than 2,000 troops from the United States and more than 20 other countries would spend almost three weeks running through drills, sharing skills and best practices for dealing with terrorists […]

The Office of DOD’s Net Assessment Paid Stefan Halper…Why?….

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Stefan Halper, the dual U.S.-U.K. citizen who reached out to Trump campaign aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, is the international man of mystery when it comes to the origins of the FBI counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign and presidency. From public records, we know he was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars a […]

REPORT: Series of ‘Deficiencies’ Led to Deadly Niger Ambush…

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The Defense Department on Thursday released its report on the investigation into the deadly Niger ambush that killed four U.S. soldiers in October 2017, and it found that a series of failures and “deficiencies” led to the event; the report did not assign individual, direct blame. Americans Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, […]

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