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Body of senior uniformed leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense who advise the President on military matters
The available reporting shows Gen. Mark Milley made two calls to his Chinese counterpart in late 2020 and early 2021 to reassure China the U.S. would not attack and to reduce the risk of unintended co...
Operation Northwoods was a 1962 menu of proposed false‑flag actions drafted within the Department of Defense/Joint Chiefs of Staff that recommended staging or fabricating attacks and incidents to crea...
President Trump did remove several senior officers from top Pentagon posts in February 2025, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, , according to contemporaneous reporting . Later cover...
When National Guard units are placed on federal active duty, command ultimately shifts to the President as Commander-in-Chief, with authority operationally delegated through the Secretary of Defense a...
The USS Liberty was attacked on June 8, 1967 by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats; 34 U.S. sailors died and scores were wounded, and Israel later paid reparations to victims and for material damage ....
Multiple official inquiries followed the June 8, 1967 attack on USS Liberty: U.S. reporting and secondary sources list roughly ten to eleven U.S. investigations and three Israeli inquiries, and Israel...
Donald Trump has been recorded or credibly accused of *multiple* incidents that amount to disparaging people with disabilities across different years and contexts, including a widely circulated 2015 i...
The historical record shows widely divergent estimates for casualties from a hypothetical U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945, ranging from figures the U.S. Joint Chiefs projected for the Kyushu landings t...
There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that Donald Trump "ordered the military to drop a plan to invade Greenland"; instead multiple outlets report he ordered U.S. commanders to draw u...
Several primary-source collections shed direct light on the USS Liberty attack: declassified CIA memoranda and reports, NSA transcript and audio releases of intercepted Israeli communications, Navy/Do...
Multiple members of the Joint Chiefs and their predecessors have publicly clashed with or criticized President Donald Trump at different times; most prominently, retired Gen. Mark Milley and then‑Chai...
General Douglas MacArthur was fired by President Harry S. Truman on April 11, 1951, primarily because MacArthur publicly and repeatedly contradicted administration policy on the Korean War—advocating ...
Multiple U.S. government reviews—most prominently the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry and several intelligence and departmental examinations—concluded the June 8, 1967 attack on USS Liberty was a mistaken ...
Senior Trump administration personnel moves in 2025 included the abrupt firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and multiple other top officers; critics and former defense chiefs say the r...
U.S. strikes on vessels alleged to be drug-smuggling boats have prompted multiple investigations and intense legal scrutiny: Congress has opened probes into whether follow‑on strikes killed survivors ...
Colin L. Powell served a 35-year U.S. Army career that advanced from a second lieutenant commissioned via ROTC into a four‑star general and culminated as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Oct. 19...
Nancy Pelosi acknowledged responsibility for security lapses on January 6 but the available records in the provided dataset do identify a specific Pentagon official she contacted about National Guard ...
Military leadership’s response to requests for support on January 6, 2021 combined public condemnation, delayed or cautious force posture decisions before the riot, and eventual deployment of National...
President Donald Trump did clear and order the U.S. military operation in Venezuela with the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine publicly said Trump gave the order to proceed o...
Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces during a large-scale operation and transported to New York, where he arrived in U.S. custody and is expected to make an initial federal court appearance on n...