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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 file image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center, speaks with Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, at a military base in Ismailia, Egypt. Having secured victory in a referendum on a relatively liberal constitution that he championed, insiders say Egypt's military chief is turning his attention to the country’s overwhelming array of problems _ from health and education to government subsidies and investment. The revelations offer the latest indication that Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is planning a run for president, capping a stunning transformation for the 59-year-old who started in the infantry. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency, File) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Stop U.S. democracy promotion abroad

By Bruce Fein

Chris Marvin (left) was an Army helicopter pilot before suffering numerous injuries in a 2004 crash on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Never one to go down without a fight, Mr. Marvin spent years recuperating and became managing director of Got Your 6, a nonprofit that works to inspire and assist other combat veterans like himself.

Chris Marvin uses #IAmUnbroken Twitter campaign to support veterans

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is awaiting an Army decision on whether he will face criminal charges for walking off his base in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009, and becoming an enemy captive until last May. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Bowe Bergdahl court-martial would require an honorable discharge

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday May 12, 2009 and reviewed by the U.S. military, a soldier stands guard at the front gate entrance to Guantanamo's Camp 6 maximum-security detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The U.S. government said Sunday Dec. 7, 2014 six men who have been held more than 12 years at Guantanamo Bay have been sent to Uruguay to be resettled as refugees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Obama releases four detainees from Guantanamo Bay; men sent to Afghanistan

By Nedra Pickler - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 2014 file photo provided by Eugene R. Fidell, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl prepares to be interviewed by Army investigators. U.S. officials have finished an investigation into how and why Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (boh BURG'-dahl) disappeared from his base in Afghanistan. Bergdahl was held captive for five years by the Taliban. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

Bowe Bergdahl investigation ends; Chuck Hagel and top leaders briefed

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

While more Iraq and Afghanistan vets are surviving their injuries, more are losing their limbs in attacks. (Associated Press)

More than 1,000 troops have lost limbs in Iraq, Afghanistan: report

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Poster for the movie Act of Valor.

Special operations forces tactics compromised by Hollywood, media reports

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This photo released in a statement by the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 shows the Taliban fighters who stormed a military-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, killing more than 140 people, most of them children. In an email on Wednesday, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed the attack was justified because the Pakistani army has allegedly long been killing innocent children and families of their fighters. (AP Photo/Pakistani Taliban handout)

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Taliban terrorists killed human decency hope everywhere

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Young targets: Hospital security guards carried out the dead and wounded after the Taliban launched one of the most deadly terrorist attacks ever in Pakistan. Gunmen stormed an army-run school that teaches children in grades one through 10. (Associated Press)

Pakistan school massacre counters assertions Taliban crippled by U.S. drone strikes

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks with Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the South Lawn of the White House upon returning from the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama to mark end of combat mission in Afghanistan despite warning signs

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The head of the Musicians' Institute of Afghanistan, Naser Sarmast, lies on a bed at a hospital after a suicide attack at the French Cultural Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. A senior Afghan official said a German citizen has been killed in the suicide attack on the French-run school in Kabul. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Teen blows himself up during Kabul play condemning suicide bombers

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. The U.S. military in Afghanistan has handed over three Pakistani detainees to Islamabad, including one who Pakistani intelligence officers said is a senior Taliban commander long wanted by the Pakistani government. The transfer of Mehsud, a close confidante of the former head of the Pakistani Taliban, underlines the improving relations between the U.S., Pakistan and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

U.S. hands over senior Taliban commander to Pakistan

By REBECCA SANTANA and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. soldiers patrol through Kabul, Afghanistan, in December, 2010. (Associated Press)

Chuck Hagel: More U.S. troops than planned to stay in Afghanistan

Associated Press

FILE - This undated handout file photo provided by the FBI shows Adnan Shukrijumah. The Pakistan military issued a statement Saturday Dec. 6, 2014 saying Adman Shukrijumah was killed in a raid in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

Al Qaeda’s Adnan Shukrijumah, who once held U.S. green card, killed in Pakistan

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Illustration: Mad Hatter (after John Tenniel) by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

Obama’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party strategy to destroy the Islamic State

By Bruce Fein

The Islamic State group, which has employed a broad range of strategies to subdue Sunni Muslim tribes in Syria and Iraq, is pushing its war for a caliphate into North Africa. Younger jihadis in particular appear to be mimicking the militants' rhetoric and brutality. (Associated Press)

SEAN PARNELL: Obama’s Middle East strategy is failing fast

By Sean Parnell

Ashraf Ghani, Afghan president, to overhaul security

By Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press

Capts. Andrew Glowa, left, and William Piepenbring launch flares from two A-10C Thunderbolt IIs Aug. 18, 2014, over southern Georgia. Both pilots are with the 74th Fighter Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga. Pilots, maintainers and support Airmen ensure Moody AFB’s A-10s stay mission ready for daily training sorties and deployments downrange. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jamal D. Sutter/Released) ** FILE **

A-10 Warthog retirement debated after replacement’s role in ‘friendly fire’ deaths

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

William A. Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council President. CSPAN

Inside the Ring: William Reinsch says China is ‘dangerous’

By Bill Gertz

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, file photo, U.S. Army Pfc. Garrick Carlton, center, of Sacramento, Calif., hikes past burning rubbish to man a hilltop observation post along with fellow Pfc. Michael Tompkins, of Wadsworth, Ohio, left, and Pfc. Austin D'Amica, of San Diego, at Combat Outpost Monti in Kunar province, Afghanistan. U.S. officials say President Barack Obama has quietly approved guidelines in recent weeks to allow the Pentagon to target Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, broadening previous plans that had limited the military to counterterrorism missions against al-Qaida after 2014. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Pentagon to send more troops to Afghanistan as NATO comes up short

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times