by Jim Heath | Dec 31, 2018 | Headlines, Military
U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force that controls the launch of nuclear weapons, tweeted an unusual New Year’s Eve message featuring B-2 bombers dropping 30,000-pound conventional weapons at a test range. “#TimesSquare tradition rings in the...
by Jim Heath | Dec 30, 2018 | Headlines, Military, Trump
Retired General Stanley McChrystal today slammed President Trump as immoral, shady, and a liar, adding he wouldn’t join the president’s administration. Stanley, who was the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, didn’t hold back in his criticism of the...
by Jim Heath | Dec 27, 2018 | Headlines, Military, Trump
Donald Trump went to Iraq to offer holiday thanks and wishes to America’s troops. But he also signed his share of red ‘Make America Great Again’ hats, politicizing the military in a way uncommon in America. Defense Department policy says that...
by Jim Heath | Dec 26, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Military
President Trump visited American military forces in Iraq today, a surprise trip and the first visit to troops stationed abroad in a combat zone by a commander in chief who has made withdrawing the United States from foreign wars a signature issue. The trip, shrouded...
by Jim Heath | Dec 23, 2018 | Headlines, Military, Trump
Less than two hours after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis went to the White House on Thursday to hand a resignation letter to President Trump, the president stood in the Oval Office and dictated a glowing tweet announcing that Mattis was retiring “with distinction” at...
by Jim Heath | Dec 20, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Military
Jim Mattis, the four-star Marine general turned defense secretary, resigned today in protest of President Trump’s decision to withdraw 2,000 American troops from Syria, where they have been fighting the Islamic State. Mattis went to the White House this afternoon in a...
