Covering Dignified Transfer at Dover Air Force Base: A Photographer's Story
In 2009, the Pentagon lifted a ban that forbade members of the news media from covering the dignified transfer of the remains of U.S. servicemen and women at Dover Air Force Base. On April 5th, 2009,...
View ArticleAs Military Suicides Increase, A Greater Emphasis on Prevention
The Senate Armed Services Committee meets today to discuss prevention of suicides within the U.S. armed forces. Suicide is the second-biggest killer of U.S. Marines; this year, 55 Marines have been...
View ArticleCombat Continues for US Troops Still in Iraq
On August 31, President Obama announced the end of combat operations in Iraq. "Operation Iraqi Freedom is over," he said from the Oval Office, as he ordered the withdrawal of all combat forces from the...
View ArticleUS Military Calls British Exit From Basra in 2007 'Huge Mistake'
In a new documentary produced by our partner, the BBC, senior American commanders call the 2007 withdrawal of British troops from Basra, Iraq, "a huge mistake." The documentary, titled, "Secret Iraq,"...
View ArticlePakistan to US Ops: Get Out
It's been several weeks since the CIA operative Raymond Davis was released from custody in Pakistan for reportedly killing two armed men in a traffic incident in Lahore, Pakistan. Since his release,...
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