Mark Thompson

Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Navy ace during the Vietnam war who became a congressman — before his conviction for accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes sent him to prison for 100 months — was released from federal custody …

San Antonio tops the list of the 50 most military-friendly cities in the United States.

The roster was put together by G.I. Jobs magazine from among the nation’s 381 metropolitan areas, meaning only 12.5% of the nation’s …

It used to be the Marines were the most penurious of the military services:

— The Army replaced its AH-1 Cobras with AH-64 Apaches, but the Marines kept flying Cobras.

— The Army replaced its UH-1 Hueys with UH-60 Black …

Puzzling placement in Monday’s New York Times of this story detailing how China is sucking as much petroleum as it can out of Iraq.

We noted on Battleland more than two years ago that China was the destination of nearly 50% …

Every morning in Washington, along with Battleland’s second cup of coffee, an email arrives in our inbox highlighting the important work that took place on the ground in Afghanistan earlier that day.

Unlike the sad …

There’s been a rash of recent reports that the U.S. military has wrestled the F-35’s cost growth to the mat. They come from some heavy hitters: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Air Force Lieut. General Christopher Bogdan, the …

Now three members of the U.S. Naval Academy’s football team find themselves the subject of an investigation into charges they raped a fellow midshipman a year ago at a house the football team apparently rented illicitly …

Skeptics of the level of U.S. military spending sometimes like to say “We’re in an arms race – with ourselves!”

In other words, we’ve been known to peddle our fourth-generation fighters like the F-16 and F-18 to so …

U.S. Marines have never been shy when it comes to calling it how they see it. And in conversations with many current and no-longer serving Marines (they dislike being called “former”), it’s clear the corps is the service …

Oct. 2, 2009: The Army and Army National Guard announce the retirement of the UH-1 Iroquois, known to one and all as the Huey – and for the distinctive whoop-whoop-whoop of its two-bladed rotor. “It was our lives. It was our …

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, charged with murdering 16 Afghan villagers last year, is going to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, his lawyer says.

That’s as good, as these things go, as Bales can expect to get, …

Earlier this month, the Marines said they wouldn’t be needing all the Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected vehicles the corps bought for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, they only want to hold on to 1,200 of the 4,000 …