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(SAN DEIGO) -- A Navy SEAL candidate has died and a second is in the hospital after falling ill on Friday just hours after both had successfully completed the g
Stocktrek Images/Getty Images(SAN DEIGO) -- A Navy SEAL candidate has died and a second is in the hospital after falling ill on Friday just hours after both had
As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology becomes ever cheaper and more accessible, the threat of armed and GPS-guided drones is becoming a serious problem for U.S. forces in theater. In the past few months, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have used small drones armed with explosives to attack Iraqi military bases housing U.S. forces several times, and the threat posed by such UAVs is only likely to grow in the months and years to come. Experts from MEI's Defense & Security Program weigh in with their thoughts on how the U.S. should respond to this emerging threat, as part of the...
The world is watching The echoes of Vietnam in President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal are unmistakable. We fought for 20 years in Afghanistan, lost 2,448 Americans, and spent billions of dollars, only to be left with the same haunting question we faced in 1973 when President Richard Nixon pulled U.S. forces out of Vietnam: What did we accomplish? Perhaps it’s best to leave that loaded question to historians and those less passionate and implicated in that conflict. Right now, our absolute focus should be on helping those 18,000 former Afghan interpreters and their families awa...
Who killed 11-year-old Dima Asaliah?: Reporter's notebook • 7 min read White House concerned about humanitarian situation in Gaza Matt Gutman reports on the latest news in the Middle East following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas late last week.John Minchillo/AP Something was off about this one. The explosion punched a beach ball-sized hole in the wall. In a conflict in which thousand-pound bombs were so routinely used, it was comparably tiny. On May 19, Dima Asaliah's family said she was doing an errand for her mother -- fetching a large, metallic bread maker from her sister's home ...