BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Colombia has failed to protect human rights activists in its remote communities, resulting in hundreds of slayings since the government reached a peace deal with the country’s biggest rebel movement in 2016, an international monitoring group said Wednesday. Armed groups, including some that emerged from the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of …

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The U.S. Army wants counterdrone capabilities to be in the arsenal of even the lowliest private on the battlefield. With what military planners call “unmanned aircraft systems” rapidly revolutionizing age-old war-fighting theories, every soldier, regardless of assignment, should know how to help knock out swarms of enemy drones before they can wreak havoc on a …

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Hate symbols have been found on two Navy ships in a matter of weeks, leading the service’s top officer to call for an end to what he says is unacceptable behavior that’s driving a wedge of division in the fleet. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday sent a message to the entire Navy fleet …

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The two-star commandant of the U.S. Army War College has been suspended until the completion of an investigation, the Army announced Tuesday. “Maj. Gen. Stephen J. Maranian has been suspended from his duties as the commandant of the U.S. Army War College,” Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said in a statement. Smith did not provide details …

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The head of the prestigious Army War College in Pennsylvania has been suspended from his duties, Army officials confirmed Tuesday. An Army spokeswoman said the suspension of Maj. Gen. Stephen Maranian as the school’s commandant is “unrelated to his current position” at the institution in Carlisle Barracks, Pa., that provides graduate-level instruction to military officers …

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