Author: Robert Burns
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Pentagon says Trump ordered Washington military parade
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon to plan a grand parade of the U.S. armed forces in Washington this year to celebrate military strength, officials said Tuesday. The Washington Post, which was first to report the plan, said Trump wants an elaborate parade this year with soldiers marching and tanks rolling, but…
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Mattis gives US troops a pep talk at Guantanamo
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — On a rare visit to the home of the U.S. military’s prison for terror suspects, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis offered a pep talk Thursday to American troops — and urged them to always be ready for war. “I need you to be at the top of your game,” he told an…
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Air Force: Texas shooter’s history should have been reported
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s top civilian official on Thursday publicly acknowledged for the first time that the domestic abuse charges for which the Texas church shooter was court martialed in 2012 should have been reported to the FBI. The Air Force had previously said that Devin P. Kelley’s conviction was not submitted to the FBI for…
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Texas killer was able to buy guns because of Air Force lapse
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church had a history of domestic violence that spanned years before the attack, and was able buy weapons because the Air Force did not submit his criminal history to the FBI as required by military rules. If the past offenses by…
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Pentagon has known of crime reporting lapses for 20 years
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has known for at least two decades about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI, including the type of information the Air Force didn’t report about the Texas church gunman who had assaulted his wife and stepson while an airman. The Air Force lapse in the Devin P.…
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Pentagon chief says North Korea engages in ‘outlaw’ behavior
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SEOUL, South Korea — The threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday, accusing the North of illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear programs and pledging to repel any strike. In remarks in Seoul with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at his side, Mattis said…
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US flies bomber, fighter mission off North Korean coast
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WASHINGTON — In a show of American military might to North Korea, the United States on Saturday flew bombers and fighter escorts to the farthest point north of the Demilitarized Zone by any such American aircraft this century. The Pentagon said the mission showed how seriously President Donald Trump takes North Korea’s “reckless behavior.” “This…
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In Kiev, Mattis says Moscow wants to redraw borders by force
KIEV, Ukraine — On the 26th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from Moscow, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Russia of menacing Europe and suggested that he favors providing Ukraine with defensive lethal weapons. Mattis also said the Trump administration will not accept Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. After attending a spirted and colorful independence…
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Trump renews Afghan war commitment, sees no speedy exit
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President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington Va., Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, during a Presidential Address to the Nation about a strategy he believes will best position the U.S. to eventually declare victory in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Carolyn Kaster