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U.S. Central Command Command Commander, U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, speaks to reporters at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, during a briefing to provide update on USCENTCOM operations. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In just President Trump's first year, district judges issued nationwide injunctions on his travel ban, refugee policy, phaseout of the Obama-era DACA amnesty, efforts to speed up deportations of Iraqis, stripping of federal grants from sanctuary cities, attempts to change Obamacare's contraceptive coverage and moves to reinstate a ban on transgender troops. (Associated Press)
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Our technologically disadvantaged armed forces (Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times)
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Ryan Payne stands outside of a federal courthouse Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in Las Vegas. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case against Cliven Bundy, his sons Ryan and Ammon Bundy and self-styled Montana militia leader Ryan Payne. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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As for the Oakland mayor, Libby Schaaf has every right to engage in civil disobedience by protecting transgressors of federal law because she doesn't agree with the law. But she should have to pay the penalty for such disobedience. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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Nick Rondoletto, left, and Doug Thorogood, a couple from San Francisco, wave a rainbow flag and hold a sign against a proposed ban of transgendered people in the military at a protest in the Castro District, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in San Francisco. Demonstrators flocked to a plaza named for San Francisco gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to protest President Donald Trumps abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military. (AP Photo/Olga R. Rodriguez)
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Florida Governor Rick Scott lays out his school safety proposal during a press conference at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla., Friday, Feb 23, 2018. Scott proposed banning the sale of firearms to anyone younger than 21 as part of a plan to prevent gun violence. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
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CNN has vehemently denied Parkland shooting survivor Colton Haab's claims that the network scripted questions for Wednesday night's town hall and rejected his question about armed guards. (Local 10 News)
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Montenegrin guards of honor stand between NATO, left, and Montenegro flags during ceremony to mark Montenegro's accession to NATO, in Podgorica, Montenegro, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Despite opposition from Russia, Montenegro joined NATO on Monday after completing its membership formalities in Washington. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)
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Troops gather during a re-enactment of Gen. George Washington's daring Christmas 1776 crossing of the Delaware River, Monday, Dec. 25, 2017, in Washington Crossing, Pa. High winds scuttled the annual re-enactment of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War. Other activities went on as scheduled, including Washington's rallying of his troops, historical speeches and processions. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Illustration on Poland's new Holocaust law by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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U.S. soldier Adam Elkins, chief warrant officer of 4th Aviation Attack Battalion 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, sits on an AH-64D Apache attack helicopter as he waits for a live-fire drill at a U.S. air base in Gunsan, about 270 km (168 miles) south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Jo Yong-hak, Pool) ** FILE **
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Illustration on the need for clearer scrutiny and vetting for firearm purchases by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Relatives mourn one of two Palestinian teenagers who were killed Saturday trying to infiltrate Israel, during his funeral in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. The Israeli military said it struck 18 targets in Gaza early on Sunday, in response to an explosive device that wounded four Israeli soldiers, along the border with the territory. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
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Pristina, Kosovo - February 17, 2017 - School children march in downtown Pristina with Kosovo flags on the ninth anniversary of independence from Serbia. Kosovo is the newest nation in Europe and the second newest in the world after South Sudan. On February 17, 2018, Kosovo will mark its 10-year-anniversary as an independent nation.Valerie Plesch/Special to The Washington Times
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Civil defense workers arrive after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria last week. Syrian-backed troops had been advancing on U.S. backed militias. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attempt to lower the temperature on increasingly heated tensions between the United States and Turkey on Thursday, traveling to Ankara at a moment of clashing military strategies between the two NATO allies in neighboring Syria. (Associated Press)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin applauds during an award ceremony in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, for Russian Armed Forces service personnel who took part in the anti-terrorist operation in Syria. Putin said at Thursday's award ceremony that Wednesday's explosion at a supermarket in the country's second-largest city was a terrorist attack. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP)
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Lebanese citizens walk by Valentine's Day decorations, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A U.S member of Combined Joint Task Force-101 walks past an election banner at a US military base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. Soldiers, aid workers and military contractors in Afghanistan are filling out absentee ballots this week and sending them back to the states in hopes they arrive in time to be counted by elections officials. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)