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Ground reports contradict President Joe Biden’s comments on Friday that American citizens can safety pass the Taliban and enter the airport. 

President Joe Biden’s State Department is charging Americans stranded in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to be evacuated from Kabul’s chief airport, according to a report. 

Pentagon correspondent Jeff Schogol of Task & Purpose posted video on Thursday of the impenetrable “gauntlet” of checkpoints the Taliban has created around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan has put a spotlight back on the controversial waiver Congress used to confirm the nomination of now-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the United States military will evacuate individuals in Afghanistan “until the clock runs out or we run out of capacity,” raising questions about whether the Biden administration could end up leaving some American citizens stranded in the Taliban-controlled country.

Pentagon leaders said the military does not have the capability to help the thousands of Americans stranded outside the Kabul airport.

Groups of military members and their families are fighting hard behind the scenes against a potential mandate for all service members to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to half a dozen individuals involved in the efforts who spoke to Breitbart News on the condition of anonymity.

The Navy admiral in charge of naval personnel admitted that a step taken last year to increase racial diversity among leaders has backfired.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that “domestic violence extremism is the greatest terrorist-related threat we face on the homeland.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in the Philippines during his weeklong trip to East Asia on Thursday, wearing a face shield as he exited the plane and greeted Filipino officials.

Milley dodged reporters’ questions on whether he actually feared then-President Donald Trump wanted to stage a coup.

The Capitol Police is poised to begin using the same military surveillance systems that troops used against terrorists overseas.

First Lady Jill Biden will join Sesame Street and the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to lecture U.S. military families about race — despite the fact that the U.S. military is more diverse than the rest of the federal government and the American population in general.

(AFP) — The U.S. and French defence chiefs signed a new “roadmap” for cooperation between their special operations forces Friday as both seek to build international efforts to counter non-state threats like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacted to an op-ed by Air Force Academy Political Science Professor Lynne Chandler García arguing in favor of teaching critical race theory and saying that she teaches CRT

An adviser to the Pentagon’s Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) is warning the Biden administration’s efforts to purge the military of “extremists” could violate individual First Amendment rights.

Waltz pushed back against the idea that learning critical race theory is akin to learning “history” and that opposing it makes one racist.

During an interview with Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” co-host Brianna Keilar said that Republicans wanted Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “who is the first black Defense Secretary to be the face of the

Biden Pentagon leaders lashed out at Republican lawmakers who grilled them on the teaching of critical race theory in the military.

The Pentagon does not yet have a definition of what “extremism” is but is working “quite hard” to define it, according to officials.

Austin said although he did not think the military is “fundamentally racist,” there is a focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The Biden administration’s $715B defense budget for 2022 proposes spending about $30M on top of spending $9.1M in 2021 to combat “extremism.”

The Pentagon on Tuesday defended the department’s diversity and inclusion efforts rolled out during the Biden administration, characterizing it as a matter of defending the nation.

The Chinese military has been ignoring requests from the Pentagon for its top leaders to speak for the first time since taking office.

Thirty House Republicans sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, warning him that creeping left-wing extremism and politicization is jeopardizing the United States military’s status as one of the nation’s most respected institutions.

Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) personnel are being encouraged to attend a conference on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) said he is greatly concerned by numerous press reports of conservatives being silenced in the military.

The first active duty service member has been charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol breach on Thursday, out of the more than one thousand people estimated to have entered the Capitol building that day.

Parlatore responded to Austin’s comment that the Navy was “looking into” Gallagher saying his team meant to kill a ISIS fighter.

The nation’s top military officer touted “diversity” as one of the United States military’s “key strengths” on Wednesday.

Sen. Dan Sullivan blasted a Democrat colleague for suggesting as much as ten percent of the military could be white supremacists or adhere to “extremist ideology.”

The Pentagon is looking into better screening recruits’ and service members’ social media as part of its effort to get rid of “extremism” in the United States military, according to a recent memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Israel may have saved the Biden administration from a humiliating capitulation to Iran with an attack that disabled Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility this weekend.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that Israel and the U.S. agree on never allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.

The power cut on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility Sunday, which Iran blamed Israel for and said was an act of “nuclear terrorism,” will set back Tehran’s nuclear program by nine months, according to U.S. intelligence sources.

Iran blamed Israel on Monday for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility, vowing for the second time in a matter of months bloody revenge against those it holds responsible for an “act of terror.”