A new name on a few military badges doesn’t imply an escalating arms race.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the contentious G7 Leaders Summit in Canada in June.
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Gordon Adams, American University School of International Service
President Trump is criticized for wreaking havoc on the international order, where the US was the established leader. But Trump is simply hastening a change that has been a long time coming.
Black American GIs stationed in Britain during the war, these in Bristol, were given a warm welcome by their hosts but treated harshly by their white US Army comrades.
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Disruptive technology is fundamentally reshaping global security, and potentially laying the ground for a US-China conflict.
US President Trump holds up a space policy directive he just signed during a meeting of the US National Space Council 18 June 2018.
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Where to draw the line between loyalty to the nation and the struggle for equal rights? A scholar sees parallels between NFL protests and a call for African-Americans to ‘close ranks’ during WWI.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his team meeting international investors and business leaders in London.
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President Trump proposes to send the National Guard to protect the southern US border. Instead of searching for your old civics textbook, here’s a pocket history of the soldiers in the spotlight.
Transgender U.S. Army Capt. Jennifer Sims lifts her uniform.
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Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, State University of New York
Privatization will aggravate, not solve VA’s problems.
Some 17,000 U.S. troops aided in the Caribbean relief effort after hurricanes Irma and Maria. That’s roughly equivalent to the U.S. military’s humanitarian mission in the Philippines after Typhoon Hiyan in 2013.
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Compared to its foreign disaster missions, the US military mobilized slowly after Maria. But in numbers, capacity and logistics coordination, its work in Puerto Rico was on par with other aid efforts.
Transgender U.S. Army captain Jennifer Sims lifts her uniform.
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If humanitarian need can’t move the Trump administration to save Puerto Rico, then perhaps American self-interest will: The island is a crucial part of the country’s economic and military machinery.
Smoke from an airstrike rises in the background as a man flees during fighting between Iraqi special forces and IS militants in Mosul, Iraq, on May 17, 2017.
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Almost hidden in the orderly rows of men’s names on the Vietnam War Memorial are those of eight female nurses who died in the conflict.
Vietnamese at a camp in Guam seeking repatriation, September 1975.
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