Army 'losing battalion' to drugs
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The Army is dismissing the equivalent of a battalion of soldiers every year for taking drugs, a report says.
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A serving soldier has been arrested at an army barracks in connection with the sale of ammunition.
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As many as 19 members of a US Army reserve unit are being investigated for allegedly refusing to go on what they deemed to be a suicide mission.
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The disappearance of nearly 400 tons of powerful explosives from a former Iraqi military installation has become a heated issue in the presidential campaign and has led to criticism and confusion over when and how the materials vanished, what more U.S. troops could have done to protect them from theft and who, if anyone, is to blame.
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The U.S. Army Reserve, tapped heavily to provide soldiers for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is "degenerating into a 'broken' force" due to dysfunctional military policies, the Army Reserve's chief said in a memo made public on Wednesday.
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The Army has encountered resistance from more than 2,000 former soldiers it has ordered back to military work.
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Strictly forbidden by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, alcohol is involved in a growing number of crimes committed by troops.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions
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The lives of British soldiers in Afghanistan are being put at risk because failure to develop a coherent strategy for eradicating the country's opium poppies has led to the Taliban forming an alliance with heroin traders, a highly critical parliamentary report warns today.
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Army admits cocaine is becoming the 'drug of choice' for British service personnel
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The manpower strength of the Army has been markedly depleted by sickness and injury, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.
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A U.S. Army investigation into abuse  at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq finds they resulted from failures  of leadership at the highest levels of command, the Washington  Post reported on Friday.
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In the latest signs of strains on the military from the war in Iraq, the Army National Guard announced on Thursday that it had fallen 30 percent below its recruiting goals
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We're fighting a war that is inflicting even greater casualties than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, incredibly, costing even more money. We're losing the War on Drugs, and we've been in retreat for three decades.
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A recent standoff between National Guardsmen and heavily armed outlaws along the Mexican border has rattled some troops and raised questions about the rules of engagement for soldiers who were sent to the border in what was supposed to be a backup role.
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The head of the Army says he is becoming concerned about "the growing gulf between the Army and the nation".
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Despite being urged to do so by Afghan and western counter-narcotics chiefs, British troops are wary of joining the offensive against the drugs trade in Afghanistan, The Daily Telegraph reported.