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Members of the US Army 1st Division 9th Regiment 1st Battalion unload heavy combat equipment including Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles at the railway station near the Pabrade military base in Lithuania, on October 21, 2019. (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Stop calling it a "defense" budget

Norman Solomon
US President Donald Trump walks with US Attorney General William Barr (L), US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper (C), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley (R), and others from the White House to visit St. John's Church after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd June 1, 2020, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

Trump has put national security at risk

Arie Perliger - The Conversation
US Army soldiers investigate the site of an explosion, January 18, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq (Getty/Mario Tama)

The Iraq War: 16 years and $2 trillion

Neta C. Crawford - The Conversation
(AP/Getty/Salon)

Iran launches missile attack: Pentagon

Joseph Neese
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kellogg Arena, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Battle Creek, Mich. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump orders killing of Iran's Soleimani

Joseph Neese
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

DOD contractor donates to America First

Mike Spies, Derek Willis, J. David McSwane - ProPublica
Cleaning up: On August 31, 2018, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced that the United States Air Force has started up an additional granular activated carbon filtration system to capture historic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination caused by the use of firefighting foam at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy)

The fight against “forever chemicals”

Michael Green - Truthout
U.S. President Donald J. Trump (L) speaks beside US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (R) during a meeting with members of his Cabinet, in the Cabinet Room of the White House March 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Mattis gives first interview since exit

Shira Tarlo
FILE - In this March 15, 2017 file photo, U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson approaches to participate in the annual joint military exercise called Foal Eagle between South Korea and the United States, at Busan port in Busan, South Korea. (Jo Jung-ho/Yonhap via AP, File) (AP)

U.S. military is a climate offender

Kate Yoder - Grist
Donald Trump; Patrick Shanahan (Getty/Salon)

No defense secretary, with war looming

Sophia Tesfaye
Chuck Grassley (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Grassley slams Pentagon spending habit

James Kidd - WhoWhatWhy
(AP/Kathy Willens)

Trump to weaken transgender protections

Shira Tarlo
Patrick Shanahan; Donald Trump (Getty/AP/Salon)

Trump also stonewalling Congress on Iran

Sophia Tesfaye
(AP/Getty/Salon)

2020 Dems on military assault crisis

Shira Tarlo
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Acting defense secretary being probed

Matthew Chapman - Alternet
Jared Kushner (Getty/Win McNamee)

Jared's clearance: The plot thickens

Igor Derysh
Donald Trump and James Mattis (Getty/Michael Reynolds)

Did Russia drive Mattis from Pentagon?

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Donald Trump views damage from wildfires in Malibu, California, on November 17, 2018 (Getty/Saul Loeb)

More Pentagon exits over Syria policy

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Internal squabbles prompt Mattis to quit

Nicole Karlis
In this Oct. 23, 2018 image, people seeking asylum in the United States line up to receive a number at the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The first obstacle that migrants in a giant caravan may face if they reach the U.S. border is a long wait in Mexico. To enter through San Diego, the wait in Mexico is a month or longer. (AP/Gregory Bull)

5,200 more troops deployed to border

Shira Tarlo
US Army soldiers investigate the site of an explosion, January 18, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq (Getty/Mario Tama)

Why US persists in waging losing wars

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
Jim Mattis (AP/Christophe Ena)

New Pentagon policy: More war?

Bryce Farabaugh
Jim Mattis; Donald Trump (AP/Salon)

Trump now says he backs Jim Mattis

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/icholakov)

Congress to DoD: Stop burning explosives

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
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