China continues to provide reminders of the threat.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – September 28, 2021 President Biden hopes the political fallout from his botched Afghanistan withdrawal will fade quickly, but Tuesday’s Senate hearing with the secretary of Defense and two top generals doesn’t cast his decisions in a better light. The hearing underscored that the President acted against the advice of the military in yanking...

Deterrence is the ancient ability to scare somebody off from hurting you, your friends or your interests — without a major war.

Under federal law and DOD regulations, service members have the legal right to seek a religious accommodation from any duty or requirement — including vaccines — that substantially burdens their sincerely held religious beliefs.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – September 12, 2021 “The United States has pulled every lever available to us to facilitate the departure of these charter flights from Mazar,” a State Department spokesman said Thursday, adding that “we were very clear” they should be allowed to leave. This helplessness is humiliating, and across Afghanistan a massive tragedy is unfolding....

By: Michael R. Gordon, Gordon Lubold, Vivian Salama, & Jessica Donati – wsj.com – September 5, 2021 In June, as security worsened in Afghanistan, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan began to raise questions about the rapid pace of U.S. military withdrawal. The Pentagon was planning to pull out the bulk of its force and shut Bagram air base by early...

By: Victor Davis Hanson –  dailycaller.com – September 02, 2021 It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country. In the hours after the horrific deaths of 13 service members, we have...

The Veterans Affairs suicide hotline received an increase in calls during the final two weeks of the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Fifty years from now, Americans will stare in sad disbelief at the photo of an American Marine plucking a baby to safety over barbed wire at Kabul airport. What a shameful, wretched way to quit a war.

The U.S. military completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday, the Pentagon announced.