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A photo of Army Lt. Col. Jason Amerine and his team with Afghan freedom fighters in 2001. Col. Amerine is in the first row, second from the right. The turbaned man standing in the second row is Hamid Karzai, who later became Afghanistan's first democratically elected president.

U.S. Army stops paying Green Beret war hero amid whistleblower probe

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The Army this week stopped paying Lt. Col. Jason Amerine, who is under investigation for sharing information with Congress on policies for freeing hostages. (Associated Press)

Jason Amerine goes unpaid by Army amid probe

The Washington Times

An X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test vehicle is uploaded to an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52 for fit testing at Edwards Air Force Base in California in July 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Air Force aims for new hypersonic aircraft by 2023; scientists to build on X-51 Waverider’s success

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Microbiologist Ruth Bryan works with BG nerve agent simulant in Class III Glove Box in the Life Sciences Test Facility at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, on May 11, 2003. The specialized airtight enclosure is also used for hands-on work with anthrax and other deadly agents. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Active-duty troops, contractors taking antibiotics for possible anthrax exposure

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

After Gen. Martin Dempsey stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Obama administration all but removed land mines from the U.S. arsenal. (Associated Press/File)

Pentagon had no plan for Mosul’s fall in 2014: ‘There were a few surprises,’ Martin Dempsey says

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this April 23, 2015, file photo, Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters regain control of the northern neighborhoods, after overnight heavy clashes with Islamic State group militants, in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Iraqi forces fighting to retake Ramadi

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama talks with the Joint Chiefs of Staff following a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, Oct. 28, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama’s Islamic State strategy sparks doubt, resentment among Pentagon officials

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Saturday night with Rolling Thunder: lots of Harleys, good will, dedication (Photo by Jennifer Harper/The Washington Times)

Rolling Thunder brings perfect Harleys, good will, dedication to nation’s capital

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

NUMBER 1. BOEING AH-64 APACHE is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability. An air weapons team of two AH-64D Apaches from the 1st "Attack" Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, come in for a landing at Camp Taji, Iraq, after completing a reconnaissance mission in the skies over Baghdad Nov. 6. Photo by Chief Warrant Officer 4 Daniel McClinton, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div.

Army told to get tougher with China, quit deferring to U.S. Navy in Asia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

The Defense Department needlessly built a $36 million command facility in Afghanistan, a watchdog group claims. (www.sigar.mil)

Watchdog faults Pentagon for $36M white elephant in Afghanistan

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

(Associated Press) **FILE**

Pentagon waste: $1M spent at strip clubs, casinos

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi rest and gather at the Bzebiz bridge after spending the night walking toward Baghdad, as they flee their hometown, 65 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 16, 2015. Islamic State militants seized the center of Ramadi in western Iraq and raised their black flag over the government compound, local officials said. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

As Ramadi falls, Pentagon says Islamic State is on the defense in broader fight

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

The National Women's Law Center is taking the U.S. military culture to task for being slow to integrate women into combat positions, but the pool of qualified females may in fact be limited. (Associated Press)

Women in combat: Test failures raise questions about how many can succeed

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The Islamic State's latest mass-beheading video purports to show the executions of dozens of Ethiopian Christians against multiple backdrops — including one replete with blood-colored waves lapping up from the Mediterranean. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Counter-jihad information war stifled by bureaucracy

By Bill Gertz

Illustrtation on the need for a U.S.response to China's world strategy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

JAMES LYONS, RICHARD FISHER: The military threat from China

By James A. Lyons and Richard D. Fisher Jr.

A drone carrying the flag of South Vietnam flies above during a commemoration for the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park in Westminster, Calif., on Thursday, April 30, 2015. (Matt Masin/The Orange County Register via AP) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

EDITORIAL: Vietnam War myth survives in Pentagon commemoration

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon raises threat level at military installations in U.S.

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Ashton Carter (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Obama threatens veto of defense funding shift

By Bill Gertz

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., accompanied by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2015, after a policy luncheon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Senate adopts GOP budget targeting ‘Obamacare’

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is interviewed about military sexual assaults on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2015. The spouses of service members and civilian women who live or work near military facilities are especially vulnerable to being sexually assaulted, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. said in a report. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pentagon accused of withholding information about sex crimes

By Richard Lardner - Associated Press