Military

Trump sends the National Guard to Chicago

The president’s military deployments to US cities are unprecedented. They are also on shaky legal ground

The new US ‘Department of War’ has a long history

Concerns about the fitness, battle-readiness, ethos and composition of America’s fighting forces date back to George Washington

Trump plans to ‘use American cities as training grounds’

The US president has directed troops to enter ‘war-ravaged’ cities including Portland and Chicago and use ‘full force’

US ‘War’ secretary throws out the rules of engagement

Pete Hegseth’s speech to 800 military officers may have seemed surreal, but was chilling in what it might mean for the future rules of warfare

The Observer view: superinjunction reveals a culture of impunity

The superinjunction reveals a culture of impunity

Deny, delete and delay: the secrecy operation inside special forces

After allegations emerged of unarmed men and boys being murdered in Afghanistan, the special forces closed ranks when the military police investigated

Are we supposed to believe no one noticed Afghan leak email for 18 months?

It’s inconceivable that no one who got the email raised the alarm, writes former UK national armaments director

Keep calm – and cover up?

It took 18 months to raise the alarm over a ministry of defence data leak which named 19,000 Afghans and more than 100 members of the special forces and spies. Why did it take so long?