CENTCOM

Israel, has been involved in the European Command, because, in the past, Israel was not recognized by most of the countries in the region.

Air Force C-17 Globemaster III crew members perform routine flight duties during cargo transport operations in the U.S. Central Command AOR.

President Trump’s new acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miler has an extensive — and impressive — background in Special Operations.

Staying in Afghanistan until an Afghan government-Taliban peace is reached, as some political analysts are calling for, would be a mistake.

New Taliban attacks come amidst the ongoing intra-Afghan peacetalks and talk of the U.S. troop presence scaling down.

“The United States does not seek conflict with any other nation in Syria, but will defend Coalition forces if necessary,” Urban said.

CENTCOM Commander McKenzie confirmed that U.S. troop presence is on track to drop to 4,500 in Afghanistan and 3,000 in Iraq by election day.

The Marines’ 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines is on the leading edge of implementing the first whole blood resuscitation program into a conventional war-fighting unit. The program is called “Valkyrie.” The Special Operations community has been utilizing whole blood resuscitation for battlefield casualties for some time. Now it is the Marines’ turn to take advantage of […]

The U.S.-led international coalition formally withdrew from Iraq’s Taji military base on Sunday. The coalition handed the base over to Iraqi security forces, coalition and local news reported. The base, 17 miles north of Baghdad, had been the site of frequent rocket attacks, in recent months, by Iran-backed militias targeting U.S.-led troops. Despite the long-term […]

After the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 looking for weapons of mass destruction, American troops found a lot of bizarre things: toilets and guns made of gold, a Koran written in blood, and Saddam’s romance novel. Although they didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction, they did manage to find some weapons. Specifically, they […]

The United States lost two of their top-end drones in an apparent collision over Idlib, Syria according to officials within the Department of Defense. The two drones may have been targeted by militants on the ground. Several MQ-9 Reaper drones have been sighted over the Idlib area. Last week one may have been used to […]

Turkey’s Senior National Representative to the U.S. Central Command’s International Coalition is sitting behind bars in Tampa, Florida after police responded to a call for a woman not breathing. According to a Military Times article, when law enforcement and Fire Rescue arrived at the apartment of Huseyin Kurtdere, a Major in the Turkish military, they […]