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.
brizzlebornandbred
When black American troops stationed in an English town faced off against white US Army military police.
Chinese anti-tank missile vehicles come with human operators – for now.
EPA/Wu Hong
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.
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/AAP
The Outer Space Treaty has guided global exploration and use of outer space since 1967. Trump’s ‘Space Force’ may not be a good fit.
The NFL is attempting to shut down protests like this one by members of the Cleveland Browns.
AP Photo/David Richard
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.
GCIS/ Elmond Jiyane
South Africa’s relations with the US could sour under President Trump.
Afghan Northern Alliance fighters in 2001. Almost two decades later, the war continues.
AP Photo/David Guttenfelder
A strategy to shut down Taliban safe havens in Pakistan could bring the war to an end.
Denis_kh via Shutterstock
To understand how a new world war might play out, it’s important to remember just how powerful the US really is.
Texas National Guard soldiers aid stranded residents in Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters in 2017.
Reuters/Texas Military Department
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.
AP Photo/Matthias Schrader
Here’s the research that explains why President Donald Trump’s limits on transgender military service may be struck down in court again.
White House physician Ronny Jackson.
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
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.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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.
AP Photo/Matthias Schrader
Here’s the research that explains why President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service was so easily struck down.
The presence of US troops in Africa must be questioned by governments and citizens.
Emmanuel Braun/Reuters
The deaths of four American soldiers in Niger last month highlighted the nature and implications of US military presence in Africa.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Civilians have become so far removed from the military and war, it can be hard to understand veterans. Their poetry can help us connect.
Puerto Rico, a key piece of U.S. military and economic machinery, is in crisis.
Reuters/Lucas Jackson
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.
AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo
Ten months of data reveal some alarming trends.
There are more than 58,000 names on the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. Eight of them belong to women.
Derek Key
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.
National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 319, Box 19, declassification number 984082
Not all who fled Vietnam at the end of the war wanted to be resettled in the US. But those who returned faced an unwelcoming government.
Marines help the wounded man to an evacuation helicopter near Van Tuong,1965.
AP Photo/Peter Arnett
Is there honor in a losing battle? The US military faced this question in Vietnam. Its response would eventually change how the media covered war and how Americans perceive it.
Using solar power could give the U.S. military some advantages – and more security.
Diane Durden/U.S. Marine Corps
US military bases usually get their electricity from the civilian grid, which is vulnerable to attack and to disaster. Solar-powered microgrids could protect national security, and would save money.