AF suspends 'Jesus loves nukes' training Amid criticism, the Air Force has halted mandatory religious training for missile officers designed to help them deal with...
At zero hour, did DoD dodge a bullet? A counter-narrative is building in Washington that, actually, the Pentagon may not have gotten that bad a deal under the debt...
The debt ceiling bargain's Doomsday Device The White House tried to make clear on Monday that it considers a potential second set of defense budget cuts to be an...
China: We need at least 3 aircraft carriers Chinese officials say they want at least the same number of carriers as will be in service in the navies of India and Japan...
What could Austerity America's defense posture look like? If America's two options are to default on its debt or swallow $850 billion in defense spending cuts, it may be time to start...
The city on the edge of forever Washington's proposed debt ceiling compromise could bring as much as $850 billion in cuts for DoD, depending on the breaks...
DoD prepares for SecDef transition Behind the scenes, the Pentagon is helping SecDef nominee Leon Panetta get ready to face Congress this week -- yet DoD can't...
Should the U.S. welcome a smaller global presence? A commentator argues that America's diminished global power will return the world to a much-needed security equilibrium.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
