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In this Friday, May 27, 2016, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter delivers remarks during the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Ashton Carter seeks faster tempo in fight on Islamic State

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Critics of the Obama administration's policy toward captured jihadis say that the White House offers a mixed message of releasing terrorists with one hand while using the other to kill them on the battlefield. (Department of Defense)

Pentagon brags of killing terrorists even as transferred Gitmo detainees return to battlefield

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Members of the al-Shabab terrorist militia undergo training at a camp outside Mogadishu, Somalia, on Nov. 4, 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Abdullahi Da’ud, key al-Shabaab leader, killed by U.S. airstrike in Somalia

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Taiwanese military personnel are discouraged from wearing their uniforms while visiting the U.S., but Sen. Daniel Coats, Indiana Republican, is attempting to lift that dress code restriction with an amendment to the 2017 defense budget bill that will be debated on the Senate floor in June. (Associated Press)

Congress seeks to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan military alliance amid China aggression

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 24, 2015, file photo, Adm. James A. “Sandy” Winnefeld, Jr., speaks in Washington. The Pentagon misled Congress with inaccurate information about sexual assault cases that portrayed civilian law enforcement officials as less willing than military commanders to investigate and punish sex offenders, an Associated Press investigation found. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

DOD uses undisclosed files to defend sex assault testimony

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

Syrian Arab trainees practice firing their small arms at an undisclosed training range in northern Syria on Saturday, May 21, 2016. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East has secretly visited Syria for a first-hand look at efforts to build cohesive alliances of Arab, Kurd and other local fighters to defeat the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Pentagon stands by noncombat role of U.S. forces in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

$A civilian fighter roams an area of damaged buildings in Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. hopes its mission will bring unity to a fractured nation. (Associated Press)$

Libya wary of latest Pentagon effort to train, arm militias to fight ISIS

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo gtaken Juky 7, 2015, President Barack Obama meets with Vietnamese Communist party secretary general Nguyen Phu Trong in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama could lift an embargo on arms sales when he makes his first visit to Vietnam next week. That would remove a final vestige of wartime animosity but would not please China which views growing U.S. defense ties in its backyard with deep suspicion as tensions rise in the disputed South China Sea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. could lift arms embargo on Vietnam amid China tensions

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Members of the al-Shabab terrorist militia undergo training at a camp outside Mogadishu, Somalia, on Nov. 4, 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. airstrike kills 5 al-Shabaab militants in Somalia

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford took over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September 2015. He is scheduled to retire in 2019. (Associated Press)

Congress moves to increase Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman’s war powers, term length

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, April 12, 2016, file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft makes a low altitude pass by the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. (U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

U.S., Russia fine tune deal to share Syrian airspace

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. airstrike takes out ISIS ‘emir’ in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Rodrigo Duterte's campaign has been defined by his hard-line stances on everything from crime and trade to counterterrorism, punctuated by public comments that have confused and infuriated regional allies, experts and observers alike. (Associated Press)

Rodrigo Duterte, the ‘Filipino Donald Trump,’ poised for victory as U.S. watches anxiously

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens and firefighters gather at the scene where one of rockets hit the Dubeet hospital in the central neighborhood of Muhafaza in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, May 3, 2016. Shells and mortar rounds are raining down on every neighborhood Aleppo," said Aleppo-based health official Mohammad Hazouri, speaking from Al-Razi hospital. (SANA via AP)

Pentagon confirms ISIS recruiter, wife killed during U.S. airstrike in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

A U.S. military policeman stands in front of a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet at the Siauliai airbase, some 230 km (144 miles) east of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Two US F-22 fighter, which are part of the Operation Atlantic Resolve, a U.S. commitment to NATO's collective security and regional stability, arrived from their base in Britain as a show of force to help Baltic members protect their borders with Russia. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

U.S. won’t contact Russian defense minister amid tension in Baltic Sea: No ‘particular purpose’

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this April 28, 2016, file photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Ashton Carter, defense secretary, says American killed in combat in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Lackind Combat Readiness Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

JED BABBIN: Shrinking U.S. military budgets threaten national security

By Jed Babbin

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 8, 2014 file photo, an Iraqi refugee man who left his hometown of Mosul walks towards Irbil as he crosses a berm that separates Kurdish fighters and militants of the Islamic State group outside the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. An Iraqi military spokesman says the long-awaited military operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants &quot;has begun.&quot; The spokesman for the Joint Military Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, says Iraqi forces retook several villages on the outskirts of the town of Makhmour, east of Mosul, on Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Iraqis, Kurds nearly ready for fight to reclaim Mosul from ISIS: Pentagon

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

A member of Charlie Company of the U.S. Marines First Division, Eighth regiment, smokes a cigarette in Fallujah, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004. U.S. forces punched into the center of the insurgent stronghold, overwhelming bands of guerrillas in the street with heavy barrages of fire and searching house to house in a powerful advance on the second day of a major offensive. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Luis Sinco) ** FILE **

Pentagon to raise tobacco prices on military bases to curb smoking, dipping

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks with Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., his nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Obama chose the widely respected, combat-hardened commander who led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transitional period during 2013-2014 to succeed Army Gen. Martin Dempsey. Walking behind them is Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Defense bill amendment targets Obama micromanagement, gives Pentagon leverage

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times