A draft inspector general report found that the mission lacks basic metrics for how to do the job—and when to end it.
The military will exhume a grave in the Philippines that may hold the remains of Bud Kelder, an American POW whose family has long been fighting the Pentagon to get him home.
The restructuring promises to address many of the problems laid out in a recent ProPublica and NPR investigation.
For more than 50 years, Army PFC Lawrence S. Gordon was mistakenly interred as a German soldier in a cemetery in France. Then European officials did what the U.S. military would not: exhumed and identified him with DNA.
Changes must go beyond bureaucracy to update the scientific approach and embrace outside help.
The structure of the military means that when people high up in the chain of command aren’t held responsible for the crimes they commit, that message will quickly ripple down the ranks.