The Front Lines

Kansas-based officers play key roles in Army debate

The Army is in the midst of an "intense debate" over a force-wide reorganization that would put a new premium on training foreign military units to fight their own battles against terrorist threats. And officers at both Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley are playing key roles in that debate.[The ...

Looking at reducing Iraqi casualties

Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth[(Boston Globe) Pentagon is pressed on killings of Iraqis:][1] Of 500 claims for compensation filed by Iraqi families and released after an ACLU court action, 133 were allegedly killed for driving too close to a convoy, ...

KU prof, Fort Leavenworth draw anthropologists’ ire

Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth[(Boston Globe) Efforts to aid US roil anthropology:][1] A new project in which university anthropologists study tribal customs in Iraq and Afghanistan for the US military has prompted a fierce backlash among academics, some ...

Abu Ghraib soldier is paroled from Fort Leavenworth

Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth[(AP) SOLDIER WHO ABUSED ABU GHRAIB PRISONERS PAROLED:][1] The highest-ranking U.S. soldier convicted of abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was paroled Monday from military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the ...

At Fort Riley, living with the wounds of war

Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Riley ¢ 1st Infantry Division[(49abcnews.com) Wounded warriors: Life after the military:][1] I recently met First Sergeant Kevin Walker. This brave Fort Riley soldier survived an IED blast; he suffered a traumatic brain injury and ...

Fort Leavenworth develops reconstruction ‘playbook’

Here are recent headlines about the military in Kansas:Fort Leavenworth[(eMilitary.org)New Playbook Aims to Help Reconstruction Teams in Iraq, Afghanistan:][1] Coalition teams working to rebuild communities in Iraq and Afghanistan have a new resource. The Provincial Reconstruction Team ...