by Connor Morgan | Oct 15, 2015 | National Security
ROCKVILLE, Md. – Roger Waters is directing troops. Literally. The famous front man has led the British band Pink Floyd for the past half-century. Now he’s leading a practice session in a room filled with wounded military veterans. MusiCorps, a music rehabilitation...
by Brian MacIver | Oct 15, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Ashton Carter defended President Barack Obama’s decision to keep 5,500 troops in Afghanistan through 2017 in a briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday. But reaction to the announcement was mixed. Obama announced earlier Thursday that the...
by Sean Froelich | Oct 7, 2015 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON– Gen. John Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, sat before lawmakers Tuesday and responded to burning issues facing the war in Afghanistan. U.S. forces bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz and killed more than twenty...
by Samuel Fiske | Oct 5, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Russia’s recent airstrikes in Syria are prompting concerns that America is losing power and political influence in the region. And the fact that Russia is reportedly targeting positions that include those held by U.S.-trained rebel factions –...
by Sean Froelich | Oct 5, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Senators condemned billions of dollars in cost overruns in an overdue aircraft carrier program, cracking down on Navy officials Thursday at an Armed Services Committee hearing. The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) are part...
by Sara Shouhayib | Oct 1, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The United States should increase humanitarian aid to people in hard-to-reach and besieged areas of the Middle East and share more responsibility with Europe in admitting refugees, senators and witnesses said at a Foreign Relations hearing Tuesday. The...
