Author: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

The Pentagon will send 3,000 troops to Germany, Romania and Poland this week, as tensions over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine escalate.

U.S. troops, tougher sanctions, more lethal arms among President Joe Biden’s options for confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine.

The military’s highest-profile bases had the highest number of suicides, as Pentagon contends with troops dying not from enemies but their own hands.

Code Talkers, Medal of Honor recipient could replace Fort Hood, Fort Bragg and other bases named for Confederate officers who betrayed their oaths.

Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of State, regretted making the case there were weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq in a 2003 UN speech.

Nowhere is the Pentagon’s suicide crisis more acute than among active-duty Army soldiers. Young, enlisted men remain at higher risk.

The Aug. 29 strike near the Kabul airport during the U.S. exit from Afghanistan killed ten civilians, including up to seven children, the Pentagon said.

After the US completes its exit from Afghanistan by Aug. 31, intelligence leads will lessen and missions will have to be conducted from farther away.

The Air Force is investigating human remains found in the wheel well of a C-17 that had been surrounded by panicked Afghans in Kabul.