List of U.S. Military articles
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U.S. sailors look on as they stand aboard the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill while it anchors in Port Sudan on March 1. Give the U.S. Navy the Army’s Money
To meet challenges from China, the rule of thirds must be broken.
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A U.S. Army helicopter crewman mans a gun on the rear gate as it departs Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul on April 24, 2017. Leaving Afghanistan Will Be More Expensive Than Anyone Expects
Penalties for broken contracts, fees for shipping equipment, and salaries for the Afghan military are just a few of the costs that will hit the United States as it leaves.
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biden afghan withdrawal Is Leaving Afghanistan Misguided or Overdue?
Biden’s withdrawal announcement is meant to end a 20-year war, but Washington has been dragged back into conflicts before.
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Joe Biden at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. How Biden Will—and Won’t—Battle the Pentagon
What the new president really thinks about the military—and what the military really thinks about him.
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A U.S. soldier fires a rocket-propelled grenade during a firefight with insurgents in the Pech Valley, Afghanistan, on June 22, 2012. A Masterful Account of America’s Doomed Afghanistan Mission
Wesley Morgan’s “The Hardest Place” is embedded reporting at its finest.
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A U.S. aircraft carrier leaves its San Diego port. Will Americans Die for Freedom of Navigation?
The Navy’s favorite tool in Asia is deeply flawed.
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Soldiers unload bags at a U.S. base. It’s Time to Prepare for U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
There are no good choices, but staying on is the worst.
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1_infographic_lead Words of War
Decrypting nine new military programs that will change the face of battle.
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Matt Chase illustration for Foreign Policy The End of the Fighting General
America’s top brass should abandon dreams of battlefield glory—and focus on paperwork instead.
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The X-43A hypersonic research aircraft is launched from the B-52B launch aircraft. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Pentagon Official Says U.S. Hypersonic Weapons Research Underfunded
Amid reports of a new Russian missile, DARPA's chief says the United States lacks infrastructure.
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A commercially available drone similar to ones used against U.S. forces (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images). DARPA Wants Mobile Technologies to Combat Small Drones
The U.S. military needs better tech to fight store-bought drones.
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sharon2 The Graveyard of Empires and Big Data
The Pentagon's secret plan to crowdsource intelligence from Afghan civilians turned out to be brilliant — too brilliant.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Brainbelt Awakening
It’s time to stop championing the "lonely heroes" of innovation like Apple, Google, and Amazon and rally around the ingenuity of the world’s waning industrial communities.
