Tag: Pentagon

President Donald Trump has given the military the authority to reset a confusing system of troop limits in Iraq and Syria that critics said allowed the White House to micro-manage battlefield decisions and ultimately obscured the real number of U.S. forces. The Pentagon, which confirmed the move on Wednesday, said no change has yet been […]

Retired Air Force Captain Joni Marquez is claiming the Pentagon hid the truth and lied about the circumstances that led to a Chinook helicopter crash that killed 38 which included 17 Navy SEALs. The Chinook that was shot down had the call sign of Extortion 17. Captain Marquez was the fire control officer aboard an AC-130 […]

A week ago, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group was being diverted from its scheduled operations in Australia to head directly for the Korean peninsula amid ever-increasing tension surrounding Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program. Reports substantiating his claim came in from the Pentagon, and […]

KABUL — U.S. forces in Afghanistan have not yet assessed the impact of a massive strike on Islamic State militants in the eastern part of the country, a military spokesman said Friday, raising questions about the already controversial decision to deploy a 22,000-pound bomb on the battlefield. The Afghan Defense Ministry said three dozen fighters […]

  Less than 24 hours after two US Navy destroyers pulled up to Syria’s Mediterranean coast and let fly a blistering salvo of 59 cruise missiles, Syrian warplanes took off from the damaged air base targeted by the strike, according to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory. The US strike, retaliation for a chemical attack in […]

Lost in the pandemonium of the last few weeks’ focus on the possible repeal of Obamacare, passage (or not) of a new health care bill, possible Trump campaign ties to the Russian government, and all the other shenanigans swirling about Washington, D.C. these days, was pretty clear evidence that the Trump administration has delegated quite […]

According to a statement by Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis, dozens of core Al Qaeda leaders are believed to have been killed in a U.S led airstrike in Jinah, Syria last week. Captain Davis delivered a written statement and then briefly took questions from reporters regarding the strike.  Opponents in Syria have accused U.S. forces […]

The Pentagon on Friday denied accusations by a Syrian rebel group that the United States had targeted a mosque in Syria and, in a rare move, showed an aerial image to illustrate the mosque was intact and the building destroyed was in fact across the street. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis, addressing a Pentagon news […]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing a deployment of up to 1,000 American soldiers to Kuwait to serve as a reserve force in the fight against Islamic State as U.S.-backed fighters accelerate the offensive in Syria and Iraq, U.S. officials told Reuters. Proponents of the option, which has not been previously reported, said it […]

According to White House Budget Officials, President Trump is preparing to unveil his new defense spending plan, which will include adding $54 billion to the existing defense budget, and cutting the same from non-defense related costs, including a large reduction in foreign aid. “This budget will be a public safety and national security budget,” Trump […]

Air Force Colonel John Dorrian conducted a press briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday, in which he indicated that the progress made by coalition forces and the Iraqi military in recent days will have reverberating effects throughout the ISIS command structure, and will eventually lead to their defeat. The ISIS-controlled area is “shrinking steadily with […]

A story released and promoted Wednesday by the Pentagon about an Iraqi refugee has caught the eye of some who see it as a stealth “Twitter rebellion” against President Trump’s policy proposals playing out on social media. An article about Marine Cpl. Ali J. Mohammed’s journey from Iraq to the United States was first published on […]