Anti-Prostitution Rule Drafted for U.S. Troops
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The move is part of a Defense Department effort to reduce the possibility that troops will contribute to human trafficking overseas by seeking the services of women forced into prostitution.
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New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
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Poor living conditions for U.S. soldiers and an immersion in an unfamiliar culture may have contributed to abuses at U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, according to government documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday.
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Friday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a controversial decision by Missouri's Secretary of State: the state of Missouri will be allowing soldiers stationed overseas to cast ballots via e-mail. Their absentee ballots will be scanned and converted to PDF files, which will be emailed to the Defense Department, printed out, and then faxed to Missouri.  I'm in favor of helping soldiers vote; this is a democracy, everyone should be able to vote. Yet I'm deeply skeptical of this proposal, for two reasons:  The plan depends on e-mailed ballots being printed out and faxed by the Defense Department but does not provide any safeguards against soldiers being sanctioned for how they have voted;  The transmission method is inherently technically insecure
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A group supporting natural breasts  staged a small street protest in Hollywood on Wednesday against  a U.S. military policy offering free breast implants to female  soldiers.
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The U.S. Congress moved on Friday to block the Bush administration from building permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or controlling the country's oil sector, as it approved $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The prohibition would restrict all American interrogators to techniques allowed in the Army Field Manual, which bars the use of physical force.
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The U.S. military rejected a 1994  proposal to develop an "aphrodisiac" to spur homosexual  activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other  less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said Sunday.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Dec 15 (OneWorld) - Abuses and even torture of Iraqi detainees by US Marines have been widespread, according to US Navy documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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The investigation of allegations that soldiers abused the bodies of Palestinians killed during army operations is part of the military's new focus on ethics.
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Details of the role civilian contractors played in the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison sparked fresh debate yesterday about the effectiveness of laws and rules meant to govern workers hired to support the military.
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A move to lift the ban on gays in the military is gaining support. But change is unlikely anytime soon.
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An infrared patch that allows easy nighttime identification of U.S. soldiers is widely available in the United States. That's a big problem.
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WASHINGTON -- The Army secretary has rejected a recommendation to permit female soldiers to serve alongside combat units and asserted that recent changes to one Army division do not depart from a longtime prohibition against women operating side by side with front-line fighting forces, according to officials and documents.
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House Democratic leaders are planning a short and simple measure opposing President Bush's decision to send more forces into combat
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A new body to champion the rights of soldiers, sailors and aircrews is on the verge of launching.
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Afghanistan&#039;s parliament has approved a motion calling for the government to prosecute the U.S. soldiers responsible for a deadly road crash that sparked the worst riots in Kabul in years, officials said Wednesday.