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  • This July 13, 2011, photo made available on the International Security Assistance Force's Flickr website shows the former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. Davis Petraeus, left, shaking hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus."As details emerge about Petraeus' extramarital affair with his biographer, Broadwell, including a second woman who allegedly received threatening emails from the author, members of Congress say they want to know exactly when the now ex-CIA director and retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren't told sooner. (AP Photo/ISAF)

    CURL: Petraeus schools the White House

    Ever since CIA Director David Petraeus resigned, one question has risen above all others: Why? There's an easy answer.


  • Tuning in to TV: Soldier’s widow files suit over images in documentary

    The widow of a U.S. soldier killed in a blast in Afghanistan has sued Fox Networks and the National Geographic Society over a documentary that showed her husband and family.


  • From Iraq to Washington: Petraeus has long record of facing tough situations

    The fall of David H. Petraeus as the nation's spy chief does not erase his long record as a military commander who turned the tide of the war in Iraq and set up new tactics for killing Islamic terrorists, his friends and military observers say.


  • War widow sues Fox over film featuring her husband

    A widow of a U.S. Army soldier killed in a blast in Afghanistan has sued Fox Cable Networks and the National Geographic Society over a documentary that showed her husband and family.


  • Sgt. 1st Class Josh Olson lost his right leg after being hit by an RPG in Tal Afar, Iraq, in October 2003. He's currently stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia as part of the Army's Marksmanship Unit. (Andrew S. Geraci)

    An RPG took Josh Olson’s leg, but not sharpshooter's spirit

    Black flies hummed around stall 58 at Wagner Range. Fort Benning's pine trees shimmered in the distance as the late-morning temperature pushed 95 degrees with the promise of more from the Georgia summer.


  • U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters arrive to pick up soldiers during an exercise at Fort Campbell, Ky., for Week of the Eagles.

    ‘Screaming Eagles’ celebrate the 101st

    After months of grueling road marches through the north Georgia mountains, a group of elite paratroopers had to put their training to the test in a trial by fire.


  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Westmoreland'

    On April 28, 1967, Gen. William C. Westmoreland was accorded a rare honor, that of addressing a joint session of Congress. As he ticked off indicators of progress in the war in Vietnam, the general seemed the embodiment of the military professional: trim and erect, with prominent eyebrows and a jutting chin that did not encourage contradiction.


  • NEW ROLE: David H. Petraeus takes the oath of office Tuesday as director of the CIA with a Bible held by his wife, Holly Knowlton Petraeus. Vice President Joseph R. Biden administered the oath. (Associated Press)

    As general, Petraeus faulted work of CIA he now heads

    Former Iraq military commander Gen. David H. Petraeus, who took over Tuesday as CIA director, in the past butted heads in Baghdad and Kabul with officials from the agency he is now leading over the quality of their reporting, according to former intelligence officials.


  • Illustration: Shariah soldier by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    LYONS: Disarmed by Shariah

    Today, the mind-numbing disease of political correctness has so infected the American military leadership that it is a threat in itself. The political correctness mentality was the principal reason why Fort Hood's alleged murderer, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was not cashiered out of the Army after a shocking June 2007 PowerPoint presentation he gave as part of his psychiatric residency program.


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