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Carlo Muñoz is a former military correspondent for The Washington Times.

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President Donald Trump gestures while speaking at the Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump rejects Marshall Plan nation-building, opts for ‘tough love’ foreign policy

President Trump is disrupting a foreign policy establishment truism dating to the days of the Marshall Plan. For places such as Syria, North Korea, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories, the White House is making clear that the U.S. has no interest in embarking on the expensive nation-building missions that have characterized American conflicts of the postwar era.

September 5, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a discussion for drug-free communities support programs, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump weighs sending infamous ISIS ‘Beatles’ to Guantanamo

Two members of the infamous group of Islamic State fighters known as "The Beatles" could be headed to the U.S. military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay, as part of an effort by the Trump White House to deal with the growing influx of ISIS terrorists captured on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria.

August 30, 2018
An MD 530F military helicopter targets a house where suspected attackers were hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gen. John Nicholson said President Trump's reset of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is beginning to bear fruit. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Departing commander in Afghanistan sees fruits of U.S. strategy shift

President Trump's highly touted re-set of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan a year ago is beginning to bear fruit as the Taliban inch closer toward Kabul and Washington on a peace plan to end the 17-year conflict, the top U.S. commander in the country said Wednesday.

August 22, 2018
In this photo released by official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani is briefed by an air force pilot as he sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet, before an inauguration ceremony of the aircraft, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Iran on Tuesday displayed a new twin-seat fighter jet it says is all Iranian-made and which allegedly has advanced avionics and fire control systems. Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami stands at second right. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran unveils first domestically-built jet fighter

Military officials in Tehran unveiled the first Iranian-built fourth-generation fighter jet on Monday, in a highly-publicized show of military might targeted at the U.S. and its allies amid rising tensions between Washington and the Middle East nation.

August 21, 2018
An injured man is put into an ambulance following a suicide bombing that targeted a training class in a private building in western Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The public Health Ministry said there were at least 48 dead and dozens wounded. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Afghan capital rocked by suicide bombing

The Afghan capital of Kabul was rocked Wednesday by a suicide bombing that killed 48 young men and women and injured at least 65 others at a private education center in the city -- a devastating attack following a days-long surge of militant violence in the nation that has raised fresh concern over Washington's strategy in the 17-year-old war.

August 15, 2018
In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, Afghan security personnel patrol in the city of Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban assault on Ghazni, a key city linking areas of Taliban influence barely 75 miles from Kabul, has killed about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers since Friday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. A year after the Trump administration introduced its strategy for Afghanistan, the Taliban are asserting themselves on the battlefield even as U.S. officials talk up hopes for peace. That’s raising questions about the viability of the American game plan for ending a war that began when some of the current U.S. troops were in diapers. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

Taliban surprise offensive in Afghanistan catches U.S. military off guard

The Taliban are on the verge of dramatically expanding their control over southern and eastern Afghanistan in a surprise offensive that has caught Afghan and U.S. forces off guard and thrown a vexing new wrench into the Trump administration's strategy for ending the nearly 17-year-old war there.

August 13, 2018
In this file photo, U.S. Marines prepare to board the U.S. Navy LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushion) vehicle following the joint U.S.-Philippines naval exercise, dubbed Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), Monday, June 30, 2014 at the Naval Education and Training Center at San Antonio township, Zambales province in northwestern Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) **FILE**

U.S., Philippine forces launch search for missing Marine

American and Philippine forces are scouring the waters in the Pacific for a lost Marine, reported missing during joint military drills of the Philippines' southwest coastline, officials at Marine Corps headquarters said Friday.

August 10, 2018