The once vibrant town of Ortley Beach is still struggling to rebuild what it lost in the storm
Tim Tebow: Now Set for Liftoff?
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Connecting the Dots…
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 Ultimate Cost of Poor Decisions
Watching Afghanistan and Iraq developments unfold, failing to meet our original expectations, is depressing enough.
But it’s made worse when I think how I felt when the American public grew tired of the
The Pentagon’s New Math
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 …
Night Flight
An Army CH-47 supplies troops at Forward Operating Base Bostic in Nuristan province, April 18.
Sequestration: The Unintelligence Choice
We are now over a month into sequestration, the across-the-board budget cuts mandated by Congress when it and the White House failed to reach a budget agreement.
The predictions for what would happen should sequestration go …
How the Republicans Can Take Back the Senate in 2014
A wave of Democratic stalwarts are leaving the Senate next year
“Uttering the words `red line' should be a red line a President should never cross in any situation that depends on subjective assessments and analyses.”
F-35 Bookkeeping
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 $614 million from Lockheed Martin in 2010 …
Repeating Hi$tory
MARINA DI RAGUSA, Sicily — Almost 23 years ago, I wrote a short pamphlet, Defense Power Games.
My aim then (as it is now) was to explain why the end of the Cold War would not produce a peace dividend in the form of reduced …
“All Ears on Deck!”
Rear Adm. Bill Lescher speaks to sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge in the Gulf of Oman, Apr. 23.