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“President Trump is shifting more authority over military operations to the Pentagon reversing the tendency by the Obama White House to micromanage issues.”

“He had promised to be more aggressive in taking on the Islamic State - but had also signaled a desire to rein in the notion of the United States as the world’s peacekeeper.”

"The Pentagon has quietly unveiled a new kind of mission: It's called reassurance and deterrence.”

We should continue to do our little part because we have the economic power many other countries don't, because it comes at very small actual cost to us.

An ad hoc arrangement that curtailed conflict in a Syrian flashpoint town could be a blueprint in other areas of Syria and Iraq for peace and stability once IS fighters have been routed.

The Trump administration has to clearly understand that North Korea is not going to unravel or abandon its nuclear weapons.

A damn shame, the U.S. Institute of Peace is on the chopping block. The USIP costs the taxpayer $35.3 million. One F-35A costs $102.1 million.

“Secretary of State Tillerson told agency employees in a letter Thursday morning that next year’s budget proposal is a harbinger of new priorities.”

The Journal of Culture, Language and International Security announces its Call for Papers for its Fall 2017 issue.

It is very hard to explain combat and its effect on people that have not been there. It requires no explanation for those that have.

Continue on for information concerning the TRADOC / Georgetown University conference and call for papers.

Continue on for information on the SRF Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition.

“There has been a recent wave of fretting about our inability to train foreign militaries; one attempt to address this has been the establishment of new ‘Advise and Assist’ brigades.”

“The U.S. has been relying too heavily on Shiites and Kurds. It needs to cultivate Sunni Arab partners.”

Growing up with Distributed Common Ground System-Army has been both painful and insightful.

RAND Report: How the Past Can Inform the Present and Future

“The White House is asked to designate ‘temporary areas of active hostility’, giving commanders same latitude to launch actions as in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.”

What does Kim Jung-un want?  He knows that the United States is not going to accept his country’s status as a nuclear weapons state.

“Dr. Mohib led a vibrant, gracious conversation about the struggles of his home country and displayed deep appreciation to the family members of the Americans lost on its soil.”

No bugs. Thick book on a boring day. The first round of supporting artillery. The lazy red circle of Spooky working your front. Getting to the top.

The U.N. is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since the organization's creation. Without funding and full, safe and unimpeded access for aid workers, people will die.

“President Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly declared the war with Boko Haram over. But the radical Islamist terrorist group is still waging deadly attacks across the countryside.”

John Sopko’s message to the Afghan people is simple: Corruption kills.

The new plan by the U.S. to counter Islamic State in Syria and Iraq involves the deployment of 1,000 soldiers to Kuwait, a U.S. military official told VOA on Friday.