Rowan Scarborough

U.S. military’s millennials at greatest risk for suicide

The U.S. military's historically high suicide rate is more a generational trait than a wartime offshoot, as millennial recruits join up carrying emotional baggage, a new research paper says.

December 6, 2015

Ashton Carter promises same standards for women in combat roles

The Pentagon's revolutionary move to open all direct land combat jobs to women sends a stressed and shrinking armed forces on a politically hazardous mission, as Obama administration appointees expect a significant number of females to qualify next year.

December 3, 2015

Pentagon, State Department began ISIS strategy meetings only two months ago

It was not until two months ago -- as the war against the Islamic State was over a year old -- that the Pentagon and the State Department began regular high-level planning meetings to make big decisions on how to defeat the terror army in Iraq and Syria, the nation's top military officer told Congress on Tuesday.

December 1, 2015

Military dogs’ return to U.S., adoption by battlefield handlers facilitated by new legislation

The U.S. military prides itself on "leaving no man behind," but it's been a different story for some of its war dogs.

November 30, 2015

Ayatollah Khamenei reaffirms commitment to Iran’s Islamic Revolution, dashes Obama moderation hopes

Iran's supreme leader, unbowed by the nuclear agreement with the U.S., has told his country's most prestigious and powerful military officers that the Islamic revolution will continue into its 37th year and beyond — and they are the ones to enforce it.

November 29, 2015

U.S. commander says ‘human error’ to blame for strike on Afghan hospital

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that a series of failures, including "avoidable human error" caused an AC-130 to fire on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, killing 30 staff and patients.

November 25, 2015

Islamic State’s Paris attackers as inept as they were skilled killers

A State Department chronology of the Nov. 13 Islamic State attacks in Paris shows the terrorists were as inept as they were skilled killers.

November 24, 2015

Pentagon backs Turkey’s version of events, blames ‘incursion’ of Russian jet

The U.S. military on Tuesday labeled as an "incursion" the Russian fighter jet that was shot down by Turkish aircraft over the Syria-Turkey border.

November 24, 2015

ISIS eyes fertile recruiting ground in Indonesia, other Southeast Asia nations

The Islamic State's terrorist army is broadening its global reach to find recruits willing to come to its Syria-Iraq "caliphate" and wreak havoc.

November 22, 2015

ISIS propaganda groups back on the Internet after temporary shutdown

Islamic State propaganda groups are back on their own Internet channels just days after the tech company announced it was blocking such terrorists as a reaction to the Nov. 13 Paris massacre.

November 20, 2015

Pentagon says Ramadi operation imminent to retake city from Islamic State

A month ago the two top U.S. military officials told senators that retaking the western Iraqi city of Ramadi had been elevated to one of three critical objectives leading to the ultimate defeat of the Islamic State's terrorist army. Now that major objective is days away.

November 19, 2015

ISIS shows nimble ability to strike multiple Western targets

Stark evidence that the Islamic State now has the organizational power to conceive plots in a wide range of locations is seen in a stream of videos featuring armed jihadi leaders vowing more attacks outside Iraq and Syria.

November 18, 2015

Obama enumerates what he will not do in anti-terror fight

President Obama's year-old military strategy to defeat the Islamic State is noteworthy for what he will not do, as well as the steps he has taken for a projected drawn-out war lasting years.

November 16, 2015

Attack on U.S. just a matter of time, security experts say

It is only a matter of time before a Paris-style coordinated terror attack comes to the streets of America, experts say, citing the fact the Islamic State is far more gruesomely efficient than even al Qaeda and is attracting hundreds of committed U.S. followers.

November 14, 2015

Kurds seize Sinjar, city in northern Iraq, from Islamic State’s clutches

The Kurdish government in Iraq declared Friday morning that its peshmerga fighters, backed by intense U.S. airstrikes, had liberated the city of Sinjar, a place of horrifying atrocities carried out by the Islamic State.

November 12, 2015

Moderate Democrats pleading with Obama for decisive plan to beat Islamic State

Moderate Democrats are breaking with their party's left and with President Obama on the Iraq-Syria war strategy, basically pleading with the commander in chief to come up with a more decisive plan for defeating the Islamic State's terrorist army.

November 11, 2015

Pentagon ‘gay’ rape debacle: Report alleging male-on-male sexual trauma retracted

The American Psychological Association has taken the extraordinary step of retracting an in-house journal article that asserted the rate of rape and other sexual trauma among military men was as much as 15 times higher than the Pentagon's own survey.

November 9, 2015

Doctors Without Borders refuses Pentagon money to rebuild hospital damaged in airstrike

Doctors Without Borders is saying no thanks to a Pentagon offer to pay for rebuilding its trauma center destroyed by a U.S. AC-130 gunship on Oct. 3, killing 30 patients and staff.

November 8, 2015

Aaron Allmon case makes Minot Air Force Base ground zero in military’s new gender wars

He is an award-winning combat photographer who stands accused of trying to pick up women in the public affairs office at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and for that prosecutors wanted to put him in prison for 130 years.

November 5, 2015

‘Gay’ rape in military underreported by Pentagon

Far more military men are being raped by other men than is reported by the Pentagon because of the stigma attached to such sexual assaults, says a new study published by the American Psychological Association.

November 3, 2015