General Stan McChrystal made an important statement in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
He announced an ambitious new plan for serious national service. The plan—the Franklin Project—was hatched under aegis of the Aspen …
$108,828,819.75
— Each. Check out this Navy contract for CH-53K Super (Costly) Stallion helicopters awarded to Sikorsky on Thursday, here. Remember when choppers were cheap?
Viewpoint: Oprah as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science
The college has a duty to affirm real medicine, not vaccine-dodging
Building a Smarter, Smaller Army
It’s time to resize the U.S. Army given the nation’s fiscal realities and what we’re likely to need it to do in the foreseeable future.
In my new book, Healing the Wounded Giant: Maintaining Military Preeminence While …
Despite Early Success, Immigration Bill Faces Uncertain Path Forward
Success is rare enough in the Senate that a taste of it can make even the most seasoned legislators a little cocky.
A Boy and His Dog
Spc. Chase Couturiax and his dog, Sgt. Nina, during a foot patrol near Combat Outpost Baraki Barak in Logar province, May 21.
Amelia Earhart’s Plane Wreckage May Be Visible in Newly-Released Images
A sonar image released by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery on May 28, 2013 displays what could be the remains of aviator Amelia Earhart’s two-engine Lockheed Electra plane.
A Military Spouse’s Tale: Criminalizing PTSD
AURORA, Colo. — After fighting for his country in Iraq in 2004 as a member of the U.S. Air Force, and as a civilian contractor for nearly three years from 2007 to 2010, Maurice Lloyd — my husband — is now fighting the same …
+52%
— The increase in epilepsy cases among activity-duty U.S. troops from 2006 to 2010, according to a new Pentagon report, here. “This increase may be attributable, at least in part, to increases in moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries (prior to and during the same period) which are a well-documented predisposing factor for the development of epilepsy,” it notes.
Arizona Woman’s Drug Arrest in Mexico: Six Questions About Her Case
The suburban Mom was coming home from a family funeral in Mexico when authorities say they found 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat.
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A Vietnam-Era Marine on “Social Engineering” at the U.S. Naval Academy
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 …
$174 Billion
— The amount the Pentagon spent last year on contractors to help run the U.S. military, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, here. The 710,000 contractors on the Pentagon payroll in 2011 represented a workforce 90% the size of the Defense Department’s civilian workforce of 807,000. Added together, these 1.5 million civilian employees (technically, full-time equivalents) are a bigger force than the nation’s 1.4 million active-duty uniformed military personnel.
Gun Land: Chicago’s South Side by Justin Maxon
Photographer Justin Maxon spent several days and nights on Chicago’s South Side for TIME, trying to make fresh images that convey the sadly familiar fact of gun violence in the great but troubled city.