Military

Despite some positive trends, society needs to do more to help ease service members back into civilian life.

• By Ethan Walker

The Pentagon has paid more than $42 billion to clean up contaminated sites—mostly to private contractors—with little evidence of improvements, a ProPublica investigation found.

• By Kate Wheeling

There were 50 cases of sexual assault reported in the 2016–17 school, according to a new report.

• By Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

With Special Operations Command personnel making up an increasingly large share of troop levels abroad, the government mandate for wartime transparency becomes less binding.

• By Jared Keller

While the Trump administration has largely rejected climate change as an issue, the Department of Defense and Congress have identified it as a major potential threat to national security.

• By Sean Mowbray

Dysfunction in a U.S. Army recruitment pipeline for foreign-born soldiers has created chaos and uncertainty for thousands.

• By Sabrina Toppa

Chechen military involvement in the fight against ISIS is unprecedented.

• By Neil Hauer

Maybe think twice about it.

• By James McWilliams

Harare residents celebrate in the streets following the resignation of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on November 21st, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The American military has released hundreds of videos showing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. The victims are not always the intended targets.

• By Jared Keller

Pedestrians pass a tank stationed at an intersection as Zimbabwean soldiers regulate traffic in Harare on November 15th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Devin Patrick Kelley was a known violent criminal within the military, but the Air Force failed to share that crucial information with civilian authorities.

• By A.C. Thompson & T. Christian Miller

Trump can't enforce a policy banning transgender troops while a lawsuit against the policy change makes its way through court.

• By Kate Wheeling

Even if you ignore the obvious moral necessity for the government to assist Puerto Rico, the government should not ignore its economic and military necessity.

• By Lillian Bobea

Thirty-five other women have attempted the course since the Marines first opened it up to women in 2012, but all failed to complete the training.

• By Kate Wheeling

For certain companies, there's a logic behind the call for more war: money.

• By Catherine Lutz

The attorney general mischaracterized Obama-era restrictions while citing a study that actually says new computers reduce crime more than heavy weapons do.

• By Isaac Arnsdorf

The president's directive comes one month after declaring on Twitter that transgender troops would no longer be allowed to serve in any capacity.

• By Kate Wheeling

Russian T-90 tanks take position before firing in Kubinka Patriot Park outside Moscow on August 22nd, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday afternoon to throw out the first-degree murder conviction of Nicholas Slatten.

• By Morgan Baskin

Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft said that his office reached out to the Coast Guard's 13 openly transgender members after the president's announcement last week.

• By Kate Wheeling

Some said Trump's proposed ban on trans military service members was a distraction from the health-care bill. But his rhetoric is meant to turn those he sees as undeserving into targets.

• By Melissa Gira Grant

Tucked into the bill is an amendment requiring the Pentagon to assess the effects of climate change on military installations over the next 20 years.

• By Kate Wheeling

As it stands, transgender troops already in the military have been able to serve openly since then-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter's statement last year. But transgender recruits have not yet been allowed to enlist.

• By Susannah Rodrigue