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Why Congress must end the remarriage penalty for military survivors

A policy that causes surviving spouses to lose their benefits if they remarry suggests their sacrifice ends the moment they seek a new chapter in life.

A combat infantryman stood in the gap. Made the calculation. Pulled the trigger. But at what cost?

"There is a profound, sickening duality in being thanked for your service by people who would be horrified if they ... saw what that service required."

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How chest-thumping rhetoric erodes service member safety

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's brash rhetoric is profoundly destabilizing for actively-serving military families, this military spouse argues.

Opinion

The military’s fabled ‘human in the loop’ for AI is dangerously misleading

A “human in the loop” whose sole function is to approve a machine’s actions is not a safeguard but a design failure, argues Mikey Dickerson.