National Guard Leadership Grilled by Lawmakers over Sexual Assault Prosecutions Reports of sexual assault in the Guard have skyrocketed over the past decade, with 188 alleged incidents on state duty in...
Army Officer's Sex Assault Trial Paused over Unanimous Verdict Order by Judge Despite the legal wrangling, the unusual order is unlikely to herald a broader change in the military justice system and its...
House Approves Defense Bill with Pared-Down Reforms The House voted 363-70 on Tuesday night to approve the $768 billion National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
Narrower Military Justice Reform Among Changes that Survive Defense Bill Compromise A major overhaul of the military justice system has been scuttled from a defense policy bill in favor of narrower approach...
Lawmakers Are Worried a Major Military Justice Overhaul Is Going to Get Stopped At issue is a provision in the Senate version of the NDAA that would take the decision to prosecute most major crimes away...
Military Failing to Provide Required Help for Victims of Sexual Assault and Abuse, Watchdog Finds The Air Force in particular did not assign prosecutors specially trained to handle those crimes in 94% of sample cases from...
Military's Work on Sexual Assault Might Help with Fighting Extremists, Report Suggests As the military tackles the problem of extremism in its ranks, one team of researchers suggests thinking about the problem in...
Senators Say They Won't Wait 9 Years for Pentagon to Make Planned Sexual Assault Reforms Eight senators want reforms to combat military sexual assault to happen in six months, they wrote in a letter to Defense...
Military Would Get Boost for Sexual Assault Reform and Pacific Capabilities in Senate Budget Bill The spending bill unveiled by the Senate Appropriations Committee would give the Pentagon $725.8 billion for fiscal year 2022...
Army Unveils New Centers for Sex Assault Response After Vanessa Guillén Murder The program aims to centralize a variety of resources for victims, including legal support, investigations and medical...
Why Japanese Tanks Were Doomed in the Pacific Theater Today, the Pacific remains a prominent strategic interest for the U.S. military, but the Marine Corps recently deactivated...
Hegseth Says Wounded Knee Soldiers Will Keep Their Medals of Honor Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for...
The Italian WWII Frogmen Who Inspired the U.S. Navy SEALs While uniquely American, SEAL doctrine owes a technical and conceptual debt to Italy’s WWII combat divers, who first combined...
New Mexico's Health Care Crisis Is Forcing Military Personnel to Decline Assignments At New Mexico's three Air Force bases — Kirtland in Albuquerque, Cannon near Clovis and Holloman outside of Alamogordo — the...
Democratic Candidate for Governor of New Jersey Pushes Back After GOP Questions Her Service Record Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey in this year’s high-stakes race, is defending her Navy...
