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I was inspired by the "Yuri Resurgence Campaign" by Concolor1 (which is fantastic btw you should play it) and thought of an idea where after the Allies take out Yuri on Antarctica, the Soviets with the hindsight gained from time travel turn on them and...

At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020 — several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn't giving any Three weeks before Christmas, in the piney woods outside of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a deer hunter...

Alicia: president biden will address the nation from the roosevelt room on afghanistan minutes from now. hes been taking intense criticism from both sides of the aisle over the chaotic u.s. pullout from afghanistan. the president and his team defending their response. for instance, secretary of state antony blinken earlier on fox news sunday. >> heres what weve seen over the last week at the airport. crowds have massed at the gates outside the airport. its an credibly fluid situation. weve seen ...

Troops left in afghanistan this summer who could have finished the mission, and some were keen on doing so, but it relied on american air support and the biden administration was not willing to discuss that with them and didnt give them heads up on the timing and nature of the withdraw. i think this is going to boost those in europe, including the french who are arguing for more european or french autonomy. its not a great moment for the alliance and it is a pretty good moment for those seeking ...

The withdrawal from iraq in 2011, under the obama administration, the vacuum that left, which, of course, led to the rise of isis and then sucked the united states back into the region, into iraq and syria, is kind -- as a parallel, if anything, a better situation than what we face today. because iraq at least had a sovereign stable, semi-legitimate government. the afghan and taliban are not going to behave in the sort of international actor norms that weve seen from iraq. so i think the situati...

People that i served with, theyre good people who i admire, the afghans, and im worried about them, and im worried about their families. and i want them to get here because they deserve it. >> jason, im so glad that youre reaching out to your fellow soldiers and folks who were there. and take care of yourself. be well. thank you. >> thanks, don. appreciate it. also tonight, the taliban releasing this video of their co-founder, mullah abdul ghani baradar, arriving in kandahar. it is the first t...

Admire, the afghans, and im worried about them and their families and i want them to get here, because they deserve it. >> jason, im so glad youre reaching out to your fellow soldiers and folks who are there, and take care of u yourself. be well. thank you. >> i will. thanks, don, appreciate it. also tonight, taliban releasing this video of their cof cofounder arriving in kandahar. it is the first time hes set foot in afghanistan in 20 years. joining me now, two people who have done a lot of r...

Print this article Lawmakers and security experts are broadcasting their shock and concern over President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, slamming what they see as an “arbitrary” decision to bring troops home by Sept. 11. The United States had been facing a May 1 deadline set by former President Donald Trump to pull out its remaining 2,500 soldiers plus roughly 1,000 special operations forces. Biden had called that date too logistically difficult to meet but sti...

“At the beginning of the administration, President Biden established new interim guidance concerning the United States’ use of military force and related national security operations,” National Security Council (NSC) spokeswoman Emily Horne said. Horne said that the purpose of the restrictions was to ensure that the president has “full visibility” on proposed, significant operations while the NSC staff leads a review of the legal and policy frameworks governing drone strikes. The revi...

The Life of a Soldier Roman soldiers fighting against the Dacians by Nicolas Beatrizet, 1553.Credit...Heritage Art/Heritage Images, via Getty Images By Thomas E. Ricks In his encyclopedic GLADIUS: The World of the Roman Soldier (University of Chicago, $30), Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military arm of the Roman Empire — which was pretty much the only limb of government power outside Rome. Rome’s soldiers were surprisingly li...