As U.S. troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, an Army spouse shares her perspective on a country she’s come to know and love through her husband’s many deployments and the toll the war there has taken on her life.
Gen. Mark Milley said F-18 attack planes have been added to a previously announced package of air and sea power that can be called upon as protection for withdrawing troops.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press and Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
The U.S. and coalition partners should continue their support for the Afghan National Army, and help Afghanistan establish a special operations forces and counterterrorism center for the region, says the author of this commentary.
"No Wider War" is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon.
Withdrawing from Afghanistan will give up a strategic foothold the United States has in the back yard of its greatest rivals, says the author of this commentary.
The battle for Hill 205 was part of a counteroffensive that marked the Chinese entrance into the Korean War, destroyed the Eighth Army’s right flank and triggered a massive U.S. retreat.
Gen. Mark Milley declined to say whether Afghanistan's security forces are fully ready to stand up to the Taliban without direct international backing during a potential Taliban offensive.