Policy
White House Delays Plan to Close Guantanamo Amid Search for US Alternative
As weeks slip away, Pentagon officials say they’re only on ‘step one’ of a crucial survey of alternate locations for the detainees.
Business
All-Male No More: Army Opens Ranger Course to Women
The test is over: future classes of the elite Ranger School will be open to all candidates.
Policy
Pentagon Team Heads to Charleston to Assess Guantanamo Alternative
Amid a last push to close the detention facility in Cuba, the Obama administration is giving the naval brig in South Carolina a fresh look.
Policy
As First Women Graduate Army Ranger School, Women Veterans in Congress Celebrate
Sen. Joni Ernst and Reps. Tammy Duckworth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Martha McSally reflect on how far the military has come since they served, and how far it has yet to go.
Policy
The Islamic State, Donald Trump, and the Iowa State Fair
Iowa voters value national security, but when Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush’s debate over Iraq fell flat, Donald Trump bulldozed through the opening.
Policy
Hillary Clinton Hits Back on Email and Benghazi
“It’s not about Benghazi,” said the former secretary of state, striking a note of defiance in Iowa.
Policy
Rick Santorum Won Iowa And Now Nobody Knows Who He Is
Even candidates with national security experience are struggling with the question: “Who are you?”
Policy
Jeb Bush ‘Won’t Commit’ to Ban on Torture
Bush “not struggling with” undoing President Obama’s executive order that codified the ban on enhanced interrogation techniques.
Policy
Let the Great Debate Over the Iraq War Begin — Again
Forget the primary — it’s gloves off for Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, already beginning to slug it out over who lost Iraq.
Policy
National Security: Top Issue for GOP Voters, Sideshow in Debate
The U.S. is at war across the globe, but the leading Republican candidates spent most of their time at the two-hour debate on other subjects.
Threats
US Releases First ISIS Detainee to Iraq, Setting Precedent for a New War
The White House hands Nasrin As’ad Ibrahim to Iraqi authorities, saying it has a ‘firm belief that she will be held to account for her crimes.’
Policy
A Tale of Two GOP Advisers, Split by 2016
Two old friends — co-workers, national security pros, Romney campaign veterans — are advising two different presidential candidates this time around. What does that say about the future of the Republican Party?
Policy
Urging Support for Iran Deal, Obama Invokes Iraq War Runup
The president argued Wednesday that a vote for the nuclear agreement would break from the mindset that led to the 2003 invasion.
Policy
Clinton Uses Cuba To Attack GOP’s Force-First Foreign Policy
Her Republican rivals are attacking her as a politician from 'yesterday.' She’s using the Cuba thaw to say they’re stuck in the Cold War.
Business
Two Women Advance To Final Phase of Army Ranger School
Of the three women still vying to graduate from the first gender-integrated course for the Army’s elite, two moved on to the swamp stage. One gets another shot.
Policy
Three Cabinet Secretaries Crashed John McCain's Iran Hearing
The Armed Services Chairman makes it known he didn’t ask Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to testify on the Iran deal — the Pentagon did.
Policy
Pentagon Doesn’t Know If It’s Allowed to Defend Syrian Fighters or Turkish ‘Safe Zone’
That’s an odd situation to be in as the U.S. puts the first of its trained-and-equipped opposition fighters into Syria and finalizes an agreement with Turkey to back a “safe zone” on the Syrian border.
Policy
There’s One Big Problem with the White House Plan to Close Guantanamo
The Obama administration says some prisoners will have to be transferred to U.S. soil. But current law bars any such move — and by some readings, it forbids even looking at options.
Policy
From ‘No Deal is Better Than A Bad Deal’ to ‘This Deal or War’
Senators bristle at White House warnings, calling them an attempt to force the Iran nuclear agreement down U.S. lawmakers’ throats.
Policy
White House In ‘Final Stages’ of Plan to Close Guantanamo
The Obama administration will submit the plan to Congress shortly, but warned lawmakers: We’re not bluffing on our veto threat.
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