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The Pentagon slammed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. While Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook emphasized that the Department of Defense does not want to get into domestic politics, his statement Tuesday carried strong and obvious rebuke of Trump’s proposal, The Hill reports. …

It should be no surprise that, with egg on its face, the U.S. was not going to stand by as Putin commenced bombing ISIS out of existence. With U.S. leaders up in arms over the targeting of their “CIA-backed moderate rebels,” everyone is stunned at Putin’s reported 40% destruction of …

The Pentagon has not conducted airstrikes against an estimated 60 Islamic State (IS) training camps that are supplying thousands of fighters each month to the terror group, according to defense and intelligence officials. War strategy based on myths and lies is a recipe for crushing failure. Obama’s war strategy is …

Elite units in the military are by and large both white and male. Pentagon officials, however, are hoping for a major demographic shift, citing the benefits of diversity in terms of increasing operational capacity. Data provided by each individual service to USA Today illustrates current disparities, which are most prominent in units like …

Just a few days ago, the Obama Pentagon refused to acknowledge the rights of its military members to arm themselves at recruitment offices. Instead, they told them the same thing troops were told in Europe back in November: Don’t wear your uniforms and “close the blinds” for their own protection. …