Sgt. Justin R. Pereira and Laika 5 provide security at a new checkpoint March 25 in Kandahar province.
The Rise of Evangélicos
The story of both churches repeats itself across America and is our cover story this week
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Trying to Plumb the North Korean Mindset
The titting-for-tatting between North Korea and the U.S. continued Wednesday as the Pentagon announced it is dispatching a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) ballistic missile defense system to Guam to shoot down …
Korean Poker: Five-Card Dud?
It seems paradoxical to say it, given Pyongyang’s almost daily exercises in escalation, but the North Korean leadership almost certainly does not want to go to war.
Not that it would flinch at a massive loss of life if it …
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Current Top Pentagon Official Urged Bombing North Korea…When He Was on the Sidelines
In one of those strange twists of fate TV writers love, Ashton Carter, the current deputy secretary of defense, advocated bombing North Korea seven years ago when he was safely in his bunker at Harvard University.
Along with …
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Hagel’s Flawed Defense-Spending Premise
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sketched out his plans for building a leaner Pentagon on Wednesday — and made some cogent observations on what needs to be done to square U.S. defense plans with U.S. fiscal reality — but he based …
In a Texas County, the Murder of Two Prosecutors Leads to Gun-Buying
While suspicion has fallen on white supremacists, no one is taking chances and firearms courses are filling up
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Brinksmanship Blockade: North Korea Bars South Koreans from Kaesong
The other shoe dropped in North Korea Wednesday, as the government of Kim Jong Un refused to let nearly 500 South Korean workers cross the DMZ to work in the Kaesong industrial park.
The joint operation between North and South …
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Sequestration? What Sequestration?
Three contract inquiries Wednesday make you wonder just how eager the U.S. government is to save money:
— The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, is seeking a gardening contractor who “shall, on Monday through Saturday …
Marijuana Next
Why I’m for legalizing marijuana.
Marine Ray Gun
A U.S. Marine fires an M240B machine gun during night training in Helmand province, March 28.
Obama, Both Bushes, Clinton and Carter, the ‘World’s Most Exclusive Club,’ to Reunite
On April 25, members of the “world’s most exclusive club” will meet in Dallas for the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University
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Hey Guys: The Cammies Are Supposed to Hide You…
Let’s face it: we like looking at photographs of the North Korean military because, well…they make the U.S. military look really good.
So here is a batch of photos put together by Time’s ace photo staff for your …