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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough spent over 30 years at The Washington Times covering national security, including the Democrats' "Russia Hoax." He wrote two books, "Rumsfeld's War" and "Sabotage." A Navy veteran, Mr. Scarborough graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He reported for The Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times, Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and Defense Week.

Articles by Rowan Scarborough

White House faults decorated U.S. general’s handling of ISIS as he departs

Army Gen. Lloyd Austin relinquished command in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday of the U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State terror group -- as a bit of a sour note hung in the air back in Washington.

March 30, 2016

Putin’s Russian air force bombing Islamic State effectively, Pentagon concedes

After months of condemning Russia's military incursion into Syria as merely propping up a brutal regime, the Pentagon conceded on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin's air force has begun to strike the Islamic State terrorist army.

March 29, 2016

ISIS social media warning: More attacks will target U.S., Europe

Islamic State terrorists have taken to social media to tell the West that the March 22 attacks in Brussels are just the beginning of waves of violence that will strike more targets in Europe and the United States.

March 29, 2016

U.S. military’s ability to fight major overseas war in doubt

Beneath the positive press the military receives for preparing to mold women into the nation's first female ground warriors this year, there is another story far more basic to war fighting.

March 27, 2016

Ashton Carter: ‘We are systematically eliminating ISIL’s cabinet’

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Friday that forces have killed the Islamic State's finance chief as part of an improving campaign to identify the terror army's chieftains "so we can kill them."

March 25, 2016

Marines to undergo sensitivity training in preparation for integration of women

The Marine Corps commandant has laid out a campaign to impose "cultural change" in macho ground combat units to make sure warriors display no resistance to accepting and mentoring women.

March 23, 2016

Aaron Allmon, military photographer, cleared ‘gender wars’ felonies

An Air Force general has thrown out the lone felony conviction in the sexual harassment prosecution of an award-winning combat photographer who at one time faced 130 years in prison for making sexual advances on four women at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.

March 22, 2016

Michael Flynn says Army must ditch war data network DCGS

An Army general who reached the pinnacle of military intelligence says his service's war-deployed data analytical network is a flop and needs to be stopped, rebuilt and renamed.

March 20, 2016

Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford: Trump proposals to waterboard, bomb terrorists are illegal

The nation's highest-ranking military officer on Thursday rejected proposals from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to resume waterboarding and bomb civilians.

March 17, 2016

John McCain: America’s military force deteriorating

Only one-third of Army brigade combat teams are ready to deploy and 50 percent of Air Force squadrons are not mission-ready. The dire military readiness report card was issued Thursday by Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain, Arizona Republican, as he chastised President Obama for not requesting higher 2017 defense spending.

March 17, 2016

Iran says Iraq, Syria gateway to world revolution

The chief of the hard-line Iranian military force that sees its mission as protecting the regime said Tuesday that Iran's insertion into regional conflicts is helping Tehran spread its Islamic revolution around the world.

March 15, 2016

Army top brass skirt punishment in fraud probe as lower ranks take blame

With the exception of only one general, the Army's top brass have escaped punishment in one of the service's largest criminal investigations into contract fraud.

March 13, 2016

Osama bin Laden, Iran shared logistical alliance, intense hatred of U.S.

Osama bin Laden relied on Iran as a conduit to replenish his terrorist army with money and fighters as he worked to keep al Qaeda in the killing business during his decade in hiding.

March 9, 2016

Bill Clinton neglect left NSA ‘brain dead’ as al Qaeda plotted 9/11, Michael Hayden says

President Clinton left the National Security Agency, the nation's electronic eavesdropper, in shambles at the very moment al Qaeda was in the final planning stages of carrying out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.

March 6, 2016

Air Force Thunderbirds prioritize diversity in cockpit amid puzzling decline in applicants

The Air Force's vaunted Thunderbirds jet fighter aerobatics team is not diverse enough inside the cockpit.

March 3, 2016

Sgt. Martland case spurs bill to outlaw child rape on U.S. military bases

In a response to the case of a Green Beret whom the Army wants to boot for confronting an accused child abuser in Afghanistan, a House war veteran lawmaker is introducing a bill that would make such rape illegal on a military base.

March 2, 2016

Russia trying to make Syrians weapons against Europe, top U.S. general warns

The top U.S. commander in Europe testified on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir's forces are deliberately bombing civilians in Syria to uproot them from their homes and turn them into weapons against Europe.

March 1, 2016

U.S. launches cyber attacks on Islamic State

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Monday declared a cyberwar against the Islamic State and its savvy techies, as analysts say the U.S. likely is trying to shut down the terrorist group's encrypted messaging applications and hacking operations.

February 29, 2016

Russia using Syria as testing ground for new weapons

Russia has been using the Syrian civil war to test some of its new weapons, as the West accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of indiscriminate aerial bombardments that have killed many civilians.

February 28, 2016