Leavenworth News

Republican Jim Ryun is wooing an important voting bloc in the 2nd Congressional District with a new television ad touting his work to protect military bases while he held the seat he now hopes to recapture.

A day that would seem horribly smoggy in the U.S. is what Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau would say is a "blue sky day." Crow says, "It's my job as an artist to encourage others through music, and I'm ...

Imprisoned quarterback Michael Vick is seeking bankruptcy protection, saying that he owes between $10 million and $50 million to creditors.

Yes, the Army made some mistakes in Iraq: The 720-page report compiled by the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, details the effects of having too few coalition troops on the ground when the ...

The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003-January 2005. ON POINT II: Transition to the New Campaign .

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Road construction is expected to cause major traffic delays Monday at the security entrances to Fort Leavenworth.The military post will close the main gate on Grant Avenue for five weeks to resurface the road.

U.S. military leaders made several mistakes in the beginning of the Iraq war and were unprepared for disorder, the Army's official history of the war says.

Two people were killed when a twin-engine plane that took off from the Wheeler Downtown Airport crashed Tuesday in a Leavenworth County field.

The U.S. Army's official history of the Iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict.

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Kansas lawmakers are discouraging any talk of moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

When Capt. Ivan Castro joined the Army, he set goals: to jump out of planes, kick in doors and lead soldiers into combat.

A nearly 700-page study released Sunday by the Army found that "in the euphoria of early 2003," U.S.-based commanders prematurely believed their goals in Iraq had been reached and did not send enough troops to ...

From the Combat Studies Institute web site : On Point II is the US Army's first historical study of its campaign in Iraq in the decisive eighteen months following the overthrow of the Baathist regime in April ...

Tim F. of Balloon Juice: Balloon Juice : Message to all of those rightwing net warriors who demanded over the years that I accept that THERE WAS A PLAN and the Rumsfeld/neocon warhawks are not a bunch of ...

This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks _ and it may soon become one again.

It is increasingly obvious that the days of this U.S. offshore prison are numbered. The Bush administration's main rationale for holding terrorism suspects without trial vanished when the Supreme Court ruled on June 12 that they have certain legal rights. John McCain and Barack Obama have both called for the detention center to be shut.

But whoever becomes the new president will have to figure out what to do with those left at Guantanamo _ roughly 270 at present.

The Federal Library and Information Center Committee has announced the winners of its national awards for federal librarianship, which recognize the many innovative ways that federal libraries, librarians and ...

This 2003 Army image shows theUnited States Disciplinary Barracks, the military's then-new maximum-security prison on the north edge of Fort Leavenworth, Kan.