Things have gotten so bad for the alleged terrorists camped out at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that, at last count, 93 of the 166 detainees still there are on hunger strikes to draw attention to their …

For both good – grabbing the alleged Boston Marathon bombers – and bad – there are a lot of vile videos out there — cameras have become ubiquitous.

That’s how a videocam atop a dashboard was able to capture the final …

As the U.S. military pulls its combat forces out of Afghanistan by 2015, what drives the Taliban insurgency become increasingly important in trying to determine just how the country will fare without massive U.S. military …

Earlier this month, we took note of Rep. Austin Scott’s frustration with the uniformed leaders of the U.S. military who aren’t complaining loudly enough about the Obama Administration’s military budget proposals.

“I’m …

Last week a top Pentagon soothsayer peered into the future and found the Defense Department running out of money. Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said the problem is deeper, and likely …

The Defense Department’s abacuses are falling apart as their beads are whipped up and down trying to keep up with the impact of sequestration.

It’s driving the bean-counters crazy.

But dollars apparently aren’t the …

Numbers can get complicated pretty quickly. Especially at the Pentagon. Especially when it comes to paying – or not paying — contractors.

As defense secretary, Robert Gates withheld $614 million from Lockheed Martin in 2010 …

The U.S. intelligence community believes “with some degree of varying confidence” that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.

“Some degree of …

Sometimes, the doctors will tell you what the politicians won’t.

That’s the bottom line in a new Pentagon assessment of the human costs of the nation’s post-9/11 wars, which shows mental casualties growing far more …

The U.S. military has been routinely flying warplanes out of Qatar’s al Udied air base, just west of the Gulf state’s capital of Qatar, since 1991’s Persian Gulf War, and running the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq …

Army Major Kacie Lee flew UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as a platoon leader for the 101^st Airborne Division in Mosul in 2003, in the first of her two deployments to Iraq.

In this December interview with the Combat Studies …

How do you lose a 50-ton U-30 tractor designed to tow huge C-17 cargo planes around airfields?

Better not ask the Air Force.

But feel free to ask Air Force Master Sgt. Ernest Harrison, who stumbled upon the behemoth at an …