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New Book on Navy Reading List Prompts Senator to Introduce Bill Banning Racial Bias Training Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a hearing to examine United States Special Operations Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program, on Capitol Hill on March 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images) 6 Apr 2021 Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has introduced a bill aiming to squash racial bias training in the military as the force faces a reckoning on extremism and white supremacy in the...

Inside The Lobbying Battle Over America's Longest War President Joe Biden will soon announce whether he plans to keep the 3,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan deployed there beyond a May 1 deadline for their departure. With one month until former President Donald Trump’s May 1 deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden faces one of the most intense lobbying campaigns of his two-month-old presidency. Biden has already suggested he won’t meet the deadline. But in closed-door meetings and bold public declarations, parties on all sides ― former troops, lawmakers,...

Veteran Groups: Our Community Has an Extremism Problem On 3/17/21 at 11:00 AM EDT Veteran groups tell Newsweek this is a major problem, and many are calling for greater accountability both from within the community and from President Joe Biden's administration, which has acknowledged this issue. The inordinate number of veterans turning to radical ideology was put on display for the nation on January 6, when the deadly riots in support of then-President Donald Trump marked the first attack on the iconic Capitol Building in nearly 180 years. Rather than facing a foreign army, however, Washing...

  Prevent transfers of equipment inappropriate for local policing, such as military weapons, long-range acoustic devices, grenade launchers, weaponized drones, armored military vehicles, and grenades or similar explosives.   Require that recipients certify that they can account for all military weapons and equipment. In 2012, the weapons portion of the 1033 program was temporarily suspended after DOD found that a local sheriff gifted out army-surplus Humvees and other supplies. This bill would prohibit re-gifting and require recipients to account for all DOD weapons and equipment.   The bi...

Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., a former Marine corporal. (Courtesy Rep. Ruben Gallego) 9 Mar 2021 Ruben Gallego is a Marine Corps veteran and a rising progressive representing a deep-blue district in the Phoenix area. And he is quickly becoming one of the most high-profile lawmakers who works on military and veterans issues on Capitol Hill. Part of what makes Gallego successful in the military policy arena is his unique background. He served as a grunt in the profane, coarse and often lewd culture of combat arms, which gives him street cred in D.C. military circles. He now serves in the clean-c...