Author: Steve Balestrieri

Mazar-i-Sharif is Afghanistan’s fourth-largest city and was heavily defended. But fell without much of a fight.

While he was a more than capable Green Beret, Richard Flaherty — who was just 4 feet, 9 inches tall — had to fight just to join the Army.

“This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not a wholesale withdrawal,” the State Department incredulously said.

Given the budget for “Masters of the Air,” we can expect some very realistic CGI of the Mighty Eighth’s B-17s flying over Europe.

Putin hinted that a Sino-Russian military alliance is possible. “We don’t need it, but, theoretically, it’s quite possible to imagine it.”

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest terrorist attacks in the Sahel, although they bear the markings of the Islamic State.

The choice to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have saved many more lives than it cost.

Not everything is as it seems in “Hit and Run”.

Buying school supplies can be a significant financial hurdle for some military families. Operation Backpack aims to address that.

What do you do if your airbase is compromised? You just land on a highway, of course.

“This was an attack meant to send a message. Clearly, we could do much more, and we hope we won’t arrive at that,” the Israeli Defense Minister said.

The situation in Lashkar Gar is dire, with the Afghan commandos and allied airstrikes the only bulwarks against the Taliban.