Lawrence Korb explains how reducing the size of our ground forces and cutting back on big-ticket items, like the F-35 aircraft and aircraft carriers, can save billions of dollars.

American military planners are over halfway through a four-phase plan to hand over all security operations to Afghan forces. That plan will lay the groundwork for the eventual departure of all U.S ...

April 23, 2012: The Indian Army has been given permission to do something American Special Forces have been able to do for decades: buy whatever equipment they need, without going through the ...

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Updated at 6:30 p.m. WASHINGTON-- The White House is considering sending a small number of American special forces soldiers to Iraq in an urgent attempt to help the government in Baghdad slow the ...

In August 2011, insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter, killing 30 American troops, mostly elite Navy SEALs, in Wardak. The crash was the single deadliest loss for U.S. forces in the war.