by Matt Yurus | Jul 13, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — With only 60 moderate Syrian rebels training under U.S. military advisers and a less than expected number of Iraqi soldiers prepared to fight, the Obama administration’s quest to destroy the Islamic State and its allure through political solutions and use...
by Ezra Kaplan | Jul 9, 2015 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON–Russia’s space-based early warning system, designed to alert the nation to an inbound nuclear missile attack, is offline, leaving Moscow partially blind to potential intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) attacks. Since the Cold War, both the US...
by Dean DeChiaro & Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 9, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Army’s planned reduction of 40,000 troops by late 2017 will neither hurt the force’s threat readiness nor cut a sizable amount from the $500 billion defense budget, experts and a military spokesman said. The Army’s savings from...
by Taylor Hall | Jul 8, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Bill Graham had just boarded a United Airlines flight to Boston at Washington Dulles International Airport when United experienced an airline-wide computer glitch, grounding 3,500 flights nationwide. “We were sitting on the plane and the technology went...
by Emily Hoerner & Amina Ismail | Jul 7, 2015 | National Security
ARLINGTON, Va. – A missing U.S. soldier from the Korean War, whose remains were identified in December, was buried 64 years after his death with full military honors at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery Monday. Army Sgt. Joseph Snock, of Apollo,...
by Siyao Long & Henry Gu | Jul 7, 2015 | National Security, Topics
ARLINGTON, Va. — After 64 years, Army Sgt. Joseph M. Snock, who went missing in action during the Korean War, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery Monday. “He was 21 years old when he was wounded, captured and died,” said KathleenBaker, niece of Sgt....
