"Pressure on Washington to rein in sex crimes by the military has
been building. President Barack Obama recently called the issue a national
security problem after a Pentagon report estimated there were 26,000 sexual
assaults inside the US armed forces last year. Experts say that dwarfs
military-on-civilian crimes around the roughly 1,000 US bases dotted across the
world, some close to the planet’s most notorious fleshpots."