Obama Tightens Ethics for Appointees The Obama transition team has issued ethics guidelines that are likely to make it extremely difficult to attract defense...
OSD Outmanuevers HASC on F-22 It's not often anyone on the House Armed Services Committee invokes the constitution, but today's hearing on the F-22...
Gates' Team Probably Out; A Look at Jones And Energy While the rumor mill had Defense Secretary Robert Gates staying on and insisting that his main team stay with him, the mill...
Sky Warrior Code Writing Back on Track: Army The US Army’s top acquisition managers for unmanned aircraft systems said yesterday that General Atomics has fixed problems...
Gates Lobbies Hill for Almost $70 Billion Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent the leading defense appropriators and authorizers an unusual Dec. 31 letter in which he...
Hamas Unable to Counter IDF Armor Israeli ground forces were roughly handled in Lebanon in 2006 by Hezbollah fighters equipped with an abundance of anti-armor...
Afghan Troop Deployments to Accelerate On the eve of President Obama’s meeting at the Pentagon tomorrow with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SecDef Gates revealed plans...
Defense Spending Boosts the Economy? Data Says, Not Usually As policymakers in Washington desperately search for ways to resuscitate America’s moribund economy a popular meme is taking...
Pirates Held as "Test" Case The U.S. Coast Guard is using the recent capture of seven pirates in the Gulf of Aden as a test case of how to pursue...
Obama Asks $533 Billion for DoD The Obama administration released their DOD topline budget for FY 2010, requesting $533.7 billion, a 4 percent increase over...
Watchdog Finds 50% Increase in VA Medical Center Jobs with 'Severe' Shortages This year, Veterans Health Administration facilities reported 4,434 severe occupational staffing shortages in jobs ranging...
4 Out of 5 US Troops Surveyed Understand the Duty to Disobey Illegal Orders With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into...
National Guard Rehearsed Show of Force Against Immigration Raid Protesters, General Testifies National Guard troops repeatedly rehearsed their role in an operation at a Los Angeles park intended as a show of force...
San Diego Espionage Trial Begins for Sailor Accused of Spying for His Native China Jinchao “Patrick” Wei, 25, is accused of seven counts of conspiracy, espionage and charges related to unlawfully sending...
Trump and Putin Will Meet at an Alaska Military Base Long Used to Counter Russia The base created by merging Elmendorf Air Force Base and Army Fort Richardson in 2010 has played a key strategic role in...
