Colorado authorities are continuing to search for leads in the Tuesday evening murder of the head of the state’s prison system, and police in El Paso County, Colo., say they have little evidence so far to help them track down the …
Mr. President: We’d Like You to Meet Our Wonder Weapon
No tour of Middle East conflict zones could be complete without a stop at Sderot, an Israeli town of 24,000 that stands uncomfortably close to the Gaza Strip. The rain of rockets out of the Palestinian enclave has made Sderot …
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Sequestion Time, #6: My Other Car Is a Stealthy Black Hawk
Escalade: v., from the Italian, the act of scaling especially the walls of a fortification.
Escalade: n., from Cadillac, to describe the standard-issue chariot for four-star U.S. military commanders, despite the fiscal vise …
What Bush Got Right on Iraq — and What Obama Can Learn from It
Before pulling the trigger on Iran, the U.S. should review how Bush nearly drove Saddam Hussein from power without an invasion
III. Paying War’s Price
Part 3 of 3
America will soon be at peace.
The long, silent wars of Iraq, launched a decade ago this week, and Afghanistan have already begun their transition from the mainstream media to the history books. Domestic and …
Pulling Security
Female U.S. soldiers secure an Afghan compound March 3 in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province.
Four Hurdles That Could Block Immigration Reform
This is the best chance in a generation for immigration reform, but there are reasons a deal has been so hard to come by
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Incoming…Chart!
Two weeks ago, we posted a chart from a Government Accountability Office report that showed U.S. levels of defense spending remain at historic highs, with or without sequestration.
Now the Congressional Budget Office has …
Are Today’s Vets Better Off?
On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, it’s time for some perspective on the path we have traveled. We went into Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction, then to avenge September 11, then to build a foothold of …
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— The age of a Chinese woman with whom Benjamin Pierce Bishop, a civilian intelligence contractor working for U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii, had allegedly been sharing national-security secrets, the U.S. government charged Monday. Bishop had shared information with the one-time U.S.-based student on war plans, nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Bishop is...59.
“I think I’ll stand up, because if I get a really tough one, I have this little tap dance that I’ve worked out over time.”
— Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked Monday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies if he wanted to sit down during the Q&A portion. Check out his choreography here.
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Training Blast Kills Seven Marines
Seven Marines were killed late Monday in Nevada when a 60mm mortar round apparently exploded prematurely inside its firing tube during a live-fire exercise.
The accompanying photograph shows a Marine loading a 60mm round at …
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Sequestion Time, #5: Cough, Please
Battleland knows it is serious business, but given the tough financial situation the U.S. military now finds itself in, couldn’t the Navy have waited for better times before announcing Monday that it is seeking to hire “Live …