Articles from The Guardian - US military

Residents of Japanese island will vote on Sunday about controversial plan to move US military base

Voters on the Japanese island of Okinawa will vote this weekend in a referendum on the relocation of a US military base. They are expected to overwhelmingly reject it, but the government has indicated it will ignore local sentiment and press ahead.

Hailing ‘next step’, president accepts plans to create organization on a lesser scale than he had hoped

Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Pentagon to develop plans to create a new space force within the air force, accepting less than the full-fledged department he’d wanted.

Before signing a document instructing the defense secretary to draft proposed legislation, Trump said space was the “future” and the “next step”.

Monica Witt, who defected in 2013, worked as a cryptologist and a counter-intelligence investigator for more than 10 years

A former US air force intelligence officer who defected to Iran in 2013 has been charged with espionage, giving away the identity of a US agent and other secrets.

Hope is real after landmark Taliban talks, but fears remain about what might happen if US troops depart

The start of 2019 has brought for Afghanistan a tantalising hope of peace, fragile but very real, as the Taliban sat down for talks first with Americans in Qatar and this week with senior members of the Afghan elite in Moscow.