Dan Lamothe joined The Washington Post in 2014 to cover the U.S. military. He has written about the Armed Forces since 2008, traveling extensively, embedding with five branches of service and ...

Gen. Dan Caine, the newly confirmed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shared the concern of others in the room about putting Americans in harm’s way.

Caine said the pilot was in a jet trailing the B-2 bombers that dropped the bunker-busters on the target.