TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
With international complaints about war crimes mounting, and a vote on US involvement in Yemen having just been derailed by the Congressional leadership, another vote on Saudi weapons sales is likely forthcoming, following reports the Saudis have made deals for another $7 billion in US arms related to the war. Details of exactly what is being Read More…
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is facing allegations that he violated the Child Soldiers Prevention Act over the summer by deliberately excluding multiple nations from the list of offenders, a move done to allow the US to keep providing military aid to them. The State Department had already publicly confirmed that all three nations, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Read More…
The US now has more troops in Somalia than at any other time since 1993. One of the many quiet escalations in countries where US military operations on the ground hadn’t really been well publicized in the first place, officials say that the US has more than doubled the number of ground troops in Somalia this Read More…
Russia questions what the US goal in Syria has become. US military intentions in Syria have never been exactly transparent, but are becoming ever less so, as Pentagon officials loudly declare ISIS to have been “defeated” in the country, but insist that they intend to remain. This is a potential major legal issue, because Syria never authorized Read More…
Pentagon claims that no US troops were left behind, let alone survivors, in the October 4 Niger ambush, are falling apart with growing comments from both Nigerian officials and villagers from the area, who reported finding the body of Sgt. La David Johnson. After coming under ambush, the US lost contact with four soldiers, and evacuated Read More…
Officially, the US military never leaves troops behind. Secretary of Defense James Mattis even said literally this last week, in denying that a soldier might’ve been left behind in the October 4 Niger ambush, in which four US special forces were killed. As details continue to emerge on the incident, however, it appears increasingly certain Read More…