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Ukrainian soldiers and militiamen carry a woman in a wheelchair as the artillery echoes nearby, while people flee Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow's armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Russian shelling intensifies as Ukrainian citizens still trapped in cities

By Guy Taylor and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

U.S. Navy F-35 jets fly over Levi's Stadium during the national anthem before an NFL divisional playoff football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Minnesota Vikings, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) ** FILE **

Defense Department ill-prepared for war with China, GAO says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This Jan. 9, 2014 photo shows a sign outside of an entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Sex assault reports at military academies rise after in-person classes return

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

U.S. Army troops of the 82nd Airborne Division unloading vehicles from a transport plane after arriving from Fort Bragg at the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport in southeastern Poland, on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. Additional U.S. troops are arriving in Poland after President Joe Biden ordered the deployment of 1,700 soldiers here amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some 4,000 U.S. troops have been stationed in Poland since 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Pentagon orders another 3,000 U.S. troops to Poland

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This image from video provided by the Department of Defense and released on Feb. 3, 2022, shows the compound before a raid where Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, leader of the Islamic State Group, died in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. A U.S. official says that the militant leader, one of the world's most wanted terrorists, exploded a bomb that killed himself and members of his family during the overnight raid by an elite U.S. military force. (Department of Defense via AP)

Raid that killed ISIS leader in Syria next to impossible in Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Michael Bloomberg speaks during a meeting with Earthshot prize winners and finalists at the Glasgow Science Center on the sidelines of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

Bloomberg named to Pentagon tech advisory board

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan. The military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber, carrying 20 pounds of explosives packed with ball bearings, acted alone, and that the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were not preventable. (Department of Defense via AP) ** FILE **

Pentagon says single bomber carried out deadly attack on troops at Kabul airport checkpoint

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

People check at a destroyed house after an operation by the U.S. military in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a successful, large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwestern Syria early Thursday. Local residents and activists said civilians were also among the dead. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Islamic State top leader kills himself as U.S. special forces converge in Syria

By Dave Boyer and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. President Joe Biden has announced that the leader of the violent Islamic State group was killed Thursday, blowing himself up along with members of his family during an overnight raid carried out by U.S. special operations forces in northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pentagon: Death of ISIS leader in U.S. commando raid will hurt future operations

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Wandering hen taken into custody at Pentagon security area

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Spc. Brady McNeil, a radiologist with the Vermont Army National Guard, draws up a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 during a vaccination clinic at the Brattleboro Area Middle School, April 14, 2021, in Brattleboro, Vt. The Army says it will start booting out soldiers who refuse to take the COVID-19 shot only days after yet another fully-vaccinated and boosted senior Pentagon official tested positive for the coronavirus. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP, File)

Army to begin discharging COVID vaccine refusers

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 22, 2017 file photo, Iraqi civilians walk in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to develop a plan to prevent civilian casualties during future armed conflicts where U.S. troops are involved. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Austin wants Pentagon to focus more on preventing civilian casualties

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this file photo, an unmanned Army surveillance blimp floats through the air while dragging a tether line just south of Millville, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The Pentagon will spend millions of dollars on a fleet of high-tech surveillance blimps to help control the flow of narcotics and illegal immigrants along the border with Mexico. (Jimmy May/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via AP) **FILE**

Pentagon to spend more than $50 million for blimps on the border

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A-29 Super Tucano planes are on display during a handover from the NATO-led Resolute Support mission to the Afghan army at the military Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2020. A year-old report by Washingtons Afghanistan watchdog warned in early 2021, months before President Joe Biden announced the end to America's longest war, the Afghan air force would collapse without critical U.S. aid, training and American maintenance. The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko was classified back when it was written and only declassified on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Watchdog agency warned of Afghan Air Force collapse long before U.S. withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. intel says Russia sending agents into Ukraine to prepare for possible invasion

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Pentagon opens probe into whether extremists are getting into the military

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Defense chief Austin cleared of COVID-19, returns to Pentagon

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Honolulu Board of Water Supply chief engineer Ernest Lau points at a map during a meeting in Honolulu on July 27, 2016, to show where the Navy plans to build wells to monitor potential contamination from giant military fuel storage tanks. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz said the EPA should step in after the Navy disputed the Hawaii Department of Health's analysis of fuel contamination at a well that provides drinking water to the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam's water system. Lau said the Navy informed the city agency on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, that a high level of diesel fuel was found in samples of the Aiea-Halawa water shaft. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)

Mold, contaminated water and corruption: A year of military housing headaches for the Pentagon

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Tattoos, clothes, car stickers: Pentagon’s anti-extremism push targets more than just social media

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden steps off Marine One at Gordons Pond in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden signs annual defense policy bill into law

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times