“Bravo sat in on almost all of the meetings involving the operation against bin Laden. And you know, to this day he hasn't told a damn soul what happened.”
We make tradeoffs in personal liberties all the time. Why is gun control any different?
“Well, we’ve now obviously established that this wasn’t a beauty contest.”
That was my opening line as I peered out into an audience of Marines in their dress blues, as well as a flotilla of three- and four-star …
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Out of the mouths of junior officers:
Lieutenant James Drennan writes in the latest issue of Proceedings, the naval service’s professional journal, that too many of the senior officers he is supposed to look up to are …
A pair of UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters fly toward Kandahar, Dec. 16.
Disgusted by Wesboro Baptist’s plans to picket a vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the hacker collective is waging a cyber war against the hate-mongering group
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Robert Gates famously complained that health-care costs “are eating the Defense Department alive” when he served as defense secretary.
And that was more than two years before Monday’s Pentagon announcement of a contract to …
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I was pleased to see the proposed legislation allowing commanders to ask service members about their personal firearms in the cases where commanders or physicians were worried about suicide risk. I have spoken and written about …
In the wake of the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, parents, administrators and legislators debate whether lockdowns are enough to protect students
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John Noonan is a one-time journalist who now toils in anonymity on Capitol Hill for Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, the California Republican who chairs the armed services committee.
But every once in awhile, he betrays his …
It was a quaint town until Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School. Now Newtown is in the middle of a media maelstrom. How will it emerge?
The Leuci brothers knew Jack Pinto from their wrestling league. They appear to be coping even though there may never be answers for all of their questions
At a moment of almost incomprehensible horror and suffering, Barack Obama delivered elegiac remarks at a Sunday-night prayer vigil in Newtown, Conn.
