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The report claims that the U.S. military is "too small" and "too old." Moreover, "the readiness that we have seen over the several years has been in dramatic decline, given the sorts of things we want the military to accomplish around the world."
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Putin's interference in the 2016 U.S. election has been the center of a crisis in relations between the two countries.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is greeted as he steps off his plane as he arrives, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Tillerson is returning from a seven country trip.
Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton speaks during an interview with Mariella Frostrup at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in Cheltenham, Britain October 15, 2017. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden Seoul: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed President Donald Trump's "dangerous and short-sighted" war of words with North Korea Wednesday, saying his Twitter tirades only benefitted Pyongyang's attention-seeking ruler and hurt Washington's credibility.
When President Donald Trump sits for talks Tuesday with his left-wing Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras, he'll face a man who last year warned his own citizens that Trump represented an "evil" raft of ideas with no place in western democracy. Now that Trump is President, Tsipras finds himself among the club of world leaders hoping to paper over their election-year criticisms of the billionaire businessman, who is known to carry a grudge and remember even the smallest slight.
This is an open letter to anyone who really, really doesn't want to read another article about President Trump. I hear from you almost every day, and your criticism has started to sound something like this: "Your hatred for Trump has become an unhealthy obsession.
The White House reacted to Sen. Bob Corker's spat with President Donald Trump on Tuesday by saying the senator was "entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts" and offered examples of how the president has shown "strong leadership on foreign policy and national security." "Look, Senator Corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, who spoke about foreign policy at Westminster College's Green Lecture on Thursday, reaches out to shake a hand at a private reception at the National Churchill Museum. Sen. Bernie Sanders didn't disappoint his supporters during a Thursday visit to Fulton to deliver the 58th Green Lecture at Westminster College.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be banned by the Trump administration from purchasing weapons from a U.S. manufacturer. The cancellation drew immediate applause from Congress, where Republican and Democratic lawmakers have demanded that Trump punish Erdogan.
"This story is about the immortal people in the United States, where when one person falls, another takes his or her place." Author Robert Broome, Jr. Author Robert Broome, Jr.'s military comrade and friend, Private Michael Davidson, USMC, often spoke about his family's history while the two served together aboard the USS Portland on a NATO exercise in the north seas.
Foreign policy crises comes and go, but the power struggle between an unorthodox and ignorant president and America's military machine is eternal. With North Korea repeatedly demonstrating the potency of its nuclear arsenal, the president and the Pentagon are struggling to counter a new threat to U.S. allies in Asia and potentially to the United States itself.
Ironically, Pakistan's opposition to U.S. and NATO efforts to stabilize Afghanistan through its support of the Taliban and Haqqani insurgents would lead to greater regional instability and, perhaps, create an existential threat to Pakistan itself should Western forces withdraw. In the absence of U.S. and NATO assistance, the Afghan government would fall within twelve months and Afghanistan would revert to conditions similar to those of the 1990s civil war when the country was divided along ethnic and, to some extent, religious lines.
Any leader of any country that refuses Washington's dictatorship is automatically demonized. Leaders are accused of "killing their own people" or worse.
President Donald Trump committed U.S. troops to an open-ended war in Afghanistan, a decision the Afghan government welcomed on Tuesday but which Taliban insurgents warned would make the country a "graveyard for the American empire." Trump offered few specifics in a speech on Monday but promised a stepped-up military campaign against the Taliban who have gained ground against U.S.-backed Afghan government forces.
Reversing his past calls for a speedy exit, President Donald Trump recommitted the United States to the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, declaring U.S. troops must "fight to win." He pointedly declined to disclose how many more troops will be dispatched to wage America's longest war.
President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington Va., Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, during a Presidential Address to the Nation about a strategy he believes will best position the U.S. to eventually declare victory in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON - Reversing his past calls for a speedy exit, President Donald Trump recommitted the United States to the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan Monday night, declaring U.S. troops must "fight to win."
A vast majority of countries want to eliminate the existential threat of nuclear catastrophe, and rightly so. But achieving a world free of nuclear weapons is easier said than done, and there is a risk that some attempts to do so could prove self-defeating.
Vladimir Putin is more trusted than Donald Trump to do the right thing for the world among citizens of numerous US allies, including Japan, South Korea and seven European NATO members, according to a survey released Wednesday. Both leaders scored poorly overall in the poll by the respected Pew Research Center.
Putin is more trusted than Trump to do the right thing for the world among citizens o... WASHINGTON - Vladimir Putin is more trusted than Donald Trump to do the right thing for the world among citizens of numerous U.S. allies, including Japan, South Korea and seven European NATO members, according to a survey released Wednesday. Both leaders scored poorly overall in the poll by the respected Pew Research Center.