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Soldiers of Ukrainian army ride on a tank in the port city of Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. The Ukrainian president declared a cease-fire Friday to end nearly five months of fighting in the nation's east after his representatives reached a deal with the Russian-backed rebels at peace talks in Minsk. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine gets U.S. counterinsurgency experts after saying it can’t ‘win the war with blankets’

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle

School police forces took $13M of military gear from Pentagon: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

U.S. and European troops stand at attention during the opening ceremony of major international Anakonda-14 defense exercise at the National Defense Academy in Warsaw-Rembertow district, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. The 10-day exercise of the army, navy and air force from Poland, U.S. Canada and six other countries from northern and eastern Europe is to test their readiness to jointly react to security threats at a time of armed conflict in Ukraine, that also involves Russia. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Pentagon wants tighter soldier loan protections

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, (right) and his Colombian counterpart Gen. Juan Pablo Rodriguez Barragán salute as a Pentagon honor guard marks off their path into a meeting. The two men, each his country's top uniformed service member, discussed counterinsurgency lessons from their respective recent guerrilla wars.

JCS chief meets Colombia counterpart for first time since late-90s

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks to a crowd of military personnel at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon to take illegal immigrant recruits approved through White House program

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, speaks about the operations in Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, during a news conference at the Pentagon. In a separate action from the air strikes against the Islamic State group, the U.S. bombed a cell of al Qaida militants in northwestern Syria after concluding they were close to attacking the U.S. or Europe, Pentagon officials say. Mayville, the Pentagon’s operations chief, said that the Khorasan Group was nearing “the execution phase of an attack either in Europe or the homeland.&quot; (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Pentagon: Al Qaeda splinter planned ‘imminent’ U.S. attack

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

ready, aim, fire: Hours before an American-led military coalition pounded Islamic State strongholds in Syria, the Obama administration informed President Bashar Assad of its plans. (U.S. Navy via Associated Press)

NSA scores victory in foiling Khorasan Group’s U.S. terror plot

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, pauses while speaking about the operations in Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, during a news conference at the Pentagon. In a separate action from the air strikes against the Islamic State group, the U.S. bombed a cell of al Qaida militants in northwestern Syria after concluding they were close to attacking the U.S. or Europe, Pentagon officials say. Mayville, the Pentagon’s operations chief, said that the Khorasan Group was nearing “the execution phase of an attack either in Europe or the homeland.&quot; (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Qatar pilots kept watch as U.S. Syrian mission unfolded

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea launches a Tomahawk cruise missile at Islamic State group positions in Syria as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on the Arabian Gulf on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group, hours before an American-led military coalition pounded the extremists' strongholds across northern and eastern Syria.(AP Photo/Eric Garst, U.S. Navy)

U.S. conducted secret strike in Syria away from Arab allied support

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

U.S. military starts bombing ISIS targets in Syria with aid of partner nations

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Vehicles are stopped by security personal as they enter a gate Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, to Camp Edwards, Mass., on Cape Cod. Police and military officials were searching Monday for three soldiers from the Afghanistan National Army who went missing Saturday during a training exercise at the base. The Afghan soldiers had been participating in a U.S. Central Command Regional Cooperation training exercise at Joint Base Cape Cod, at Camp Edwards, U.S. military officials said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Officials locate 3 Afghan soldiers missing after trip to Cape Cod mall

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Image: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Self-healing soldiers: Pentagon seeks technology that can manage body’s nervous system

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Scene from the film Zero Dark Thirty.

Pentagon poised to curb Hollywood from tapping soldiers for films

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Minutes after the Senate voted to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels in the fight against the Islamic State militant group, the administration signaled that it is poised to expand its air campaign into Syria, opening a new geographic front in the war on terrorism. President Obama said, "These terrorists thought they could fight us, or intimidate us, or cause us to shrink from the world, but today they're learning the same hard lesson of petty tyrants and terrorists who've gone before." (Associated Press)

Obama given green light to battle ISIS in renewed war on terrorism

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE- In this July 16, 2014 file photo, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle sits in front of police headquarters in Watertown, Conn. The L.A. Unified's School District police department received a MRAP vehicle like this one through a federal program. School police departments across the country have taken advantage of free military surplus gear, stocking up on mine resistant vehicles, grenade launchers and scores of M16 rifles. At least 26 school districts across the country participate in the Pentagon’s surplus program, which has come under scrutiny after a militarized police response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri. (AP Photo/The Republican-American, Steven Valenti, File)

26 school district police departments have stocked up on military equipment

By Tami Abdollah - Associated Press

Gov. Jerry Brown sits at his podium before participating in a gubernatorial debate with Republican challenger Neel Kashkari in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Thursday's debate is likely to be the only one of the general election. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool)

EDITORIAL: Why militarize the schools?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2011 file photo, American and Chinese flags fly along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington. The Justice Department’s indictment last week of five Chinese military officials charged them with trying to pilfer confidential information from American companies. But even some of the alleged U.S. corporate victims of the hackers have little incentive to cheer any trade rupture with China. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Senate: China hacked military contractor networks

By JACK GILLUM - Associated Press

This Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Free Syrian Army fighter aiming his weapon during a battle with Islamic State militants in Aleppo, Syria. Members of the Islamic State group have been marching in the northern province of Aleppo capturing areas under the control of the mainstream Free Syrian Army. Islamic State fighters have overrun nearly a dozen towns and villages in Aleppo province last week crushing what little resistance they have encountered. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Pentagon: U.S.-trained Syrian rebels unlikely to reach battlefield before mid-2015

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

The Obama administration is ramping up its response to West Africa's Ebola crisis, preparing to assign 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the afflicted region to supply medical and logistical support to overwhelmed local health care systems and to boost the number of beds needed to isolate and treat victims of the epidemic. In this Sept. 3, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama sends 3,000 troops to fight ‘out of control’ Ebola in Africa

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times