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US begins shifting Afghan combat operations outside country By LOLITA C. BALDORJune 10, 2021 GMT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has already begun conducting combat operations and surveillance in Afghanistan from outside the country’s borders, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Thursday, as the troop withdrawal continues. But Austin declined to specifically address whether the U.S. will provide combat air support to the Afghan forces to prevent them or their major cities f...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III accepted all of the recommendations of an independent review commission that stood up in March and delivered its findings just last week. The commission recommended an array of changes in how the defense department and the services that fall under it will handle sexual assaults. “On my first full day as secretary of defense, I committed that we must do more as a department to counter the scourge of sexual assault and sexual harassment in our military,�...

Image credit: Mark Felix Updated July 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET An independent review of how the military deals with sexual assault has found that commanders need training in how to prevent what an official calls “daily acts of demeaning language and sexual harassment” that junior enlisted members experience on the job. That’s one of the findings in a new report from an independent review commission that President Biden appointed. The report includes 28 core recommendations and 54 sub-rec...

Updated July 2, 2021 at 12:00 PM ET An independent review of how the military deals with sexual assault has found that commanders need training in how to prevent what an official calls "daily acts of demeaning language and sexual harassment" that junior enlisted members experience on the job. Thats one of the findings in a new report from an independent review commission that President Biden appointed. The report includes 28 core recommendations and 54 sub-recommendations aimed at addressing se...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has a new ally in her quest to enhance the military’s response to sexual assaults within its ranks. Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, first introduced the Military Justice Improvement Act in the U.S. Senate in 2013. One of its provisions calls for independent prosecutors to handle sexual assault cases involving service personnel rather than having them adjudicated by military commanders. But the legislation failed to gain much traction among Pentagon leader...

Here are some of the other highlights of the hearing: On Afghanistan: Milley downplayed recent battlefield successes by the Taliban in Afghanistan, stressing that most of the district centers controlled by the insurgents were seized before the U.S. military began withdrawing and that no provincial capitals have fallen. “Theres 81 district centers that are currently, we think, are underneath Taliban control. Thats out of 419 district centers,” he said. “Theres no provincial capital that is...

Of the chain of command. >> reporter: joint chiefs chairman general mark milley told the house armed services committee, drastic measures are required to counter the scourge of an estimated 20,000 sexual assaults each year. >> its a very significant problem for cohesion of the force, and weve lost the trust and confidence of the lower ranking troops in it. >> reporter: as part of a year- and-a-half-long cbs news investigation, former soldier, mei-ling jerez, told norah she had been retaliated ag...

Mr. Austin endorsed the central set of recommendations put forward by that panel. “It provides us real opportunities to finally end the scourge of sexual assault and sexual harassment in the military,” he said. “First, we will work with Congress to amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice, removing the prosecution of sexual assaults and related crimes from the military chain of command.” “The IRC recommended the inclusion of other special victims’ crimes inside this independent pr...

In major shift, Pentagon chief backs changes to sexual assault prosecutions By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in a major break from his predecessors, said on Tuesday that he backed removing the prosecution of sexual assault and other related crimes from the militarys chain of command. Advocates and lawmakers have for years been calling for the military commanders to be taken out of the decision-making process when it comes to prose...

In major shift, Pentagon chief backs changes to sex crime prosecutions Toggle share menu Advertisement In major shift, Pentagon chief backs changes to sex crime prosecutions Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Thursday on Jun 17, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo: AP/Evelyn Hockstein) 23 Jun 2021 07:37AM (Updated: 23 Jun 2021 07:40AM) Share this content Bookmark WASHINGTON: US Defense Secre...