Mark Thompson

From a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee:

Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill.: Do you dispute this finding that the average contract employee costs two to three times as much as the …

While the Air Force is putting a two-star general in charge of its efforts to combat sexual assault, and the Army’s top general spent the first two days of this week at a conference grapping with the vexing issue, the Navy – …

No, the service doesn’t actually name China, but that’s most like who it has in mind now that it’s seeking an “Aerial Target System to Simulate Subsonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles.”

Because how can the Navy be sure it …

The Edward Snowden-National Security Agency leak case raises anew the balance between means and ends that has been simmering on the back burner of the nation’s consciousness for a decade or so.

The terror attacks of 9/11 …

Just over two years ago, Air Force Major General Margaret Woodward was leading the U.S. air war against Libya that ultimately toppled Muammar Gaddafi — and has been hailed as one of the Obama Administration’s foreign-policy …

Amid a torrent of stories about secrecy, or the lack thereof, surrounding the National Security Agency’s tracing the electronic communications of U.S. citizens, you’re forgiven if you missed Friday’s report from the Pentagon

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Navy messages have been going out in ALL CAPS since sails were around. But Navy Times is reporting that the sea service has just started permitting lower-case letters to enlist in the messages sent to the fleet around the …

Thought Winslow Wheeler’s epic last week trying to nail down the cost of an F-35 Lightning II fighter was fascinating reading. Still waiting for someone to volunteer to make the contrary case.

Unfortunately, Wheeler simply …

…the rules on dealing with troops who harm non-combatants in a war zone, without running afoul of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, is Hell’s next-door neighbor.

The Pentagon has just released a Defense Legal Policy …

It’s been a strong week for those pale folks, sprinkled in cubicles and tiny offices around Washington, who scratch their heads and ask: why is our military so screwed up? How should we fix it?

The initial volley came from …

Proving once again that the North Korean government is like New England’s weather — if you don’t like it, wait a few minutes, allegedly uttered by Mark Twain — Pyongyang is now saying it is reconsidering its April order to …

Seems that while pretty much all U.S. troops have marched out of Iraq, U.S. greenbacks continue to march in – in massed formations.

This was made clear Tuesday when the Government Accountability Office made public its recent …