It's been found that "Current Affairs" and "News" tend to attract the same types of threads, namely Current Events with or without a news article attached. Thus, to consoldate threads, the two forums were merged. Many of the other threads put in current affairs often dealt with equipment issues, personnel questions and current training stories and pictures. These topics now all have their own threads (Equipment, Army Administration, Training).
This is all in an effort to make it easier to tell where to post and find different topics.