Mark Thompson

Ex-Navy secretary Richard Danzig, also an expert on bio weapons and adviser to Senator Barack Obama when the Illinois Democrat was running for President, has urged the U.S. government to spend millions stockpiling a drug to …

The Pentagon has been complaining for years that the impending budget cuts – slated to return it to 2007 levels of spending – will cripple national security.

Kind of hard to believe there aren’t smart reductions yet to …

Amid the bumper crop of tales of sexual assault in the ranks of the U.S. military, it’s refreshing to go back in time — 71 years ago this month, to be precise — when Army created the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps amid World …

Even before the Army confirmed a third military sexual-assault preventer had been implicated in sexual harassment in the past two weeks late Thursday – the charges ranged from sexual battery, to pandering, to stalking an …

There’s bad news from Iraq today, and worse news from Afghanistan:

BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot

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History was made in a flash earlier this week, when the Navy’s jet-powered X-47B drone flew off an aircraft carrier for the first time. The official Navy video of the event lasted all of 10 seconds.

But actual recordings of …

Soldiers coming home from battle have long smuggled war trophies – weapons and other items plundered from the enemy, living or otherwise. There are strict Pentagon rules and regulations on the practice.

But that all involves

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Sexual assaults in the military, long simmering on the Pentagon’s back burner, moved to a roiling boil 10 days ago – and threatened to explode with the announcement Tuesday night of yet another probe into sexual assault by a …

The Russians booted a U.S. diplomat from their country Tuesday, contending he was a CIA spy. The cable network FX has a hit on its hands with The Americans, a weekly show that focuses on a Soviet couple working for the KGB in …

We’ve known for a long time that the cost of college education has gone through the roof. But who’d have thunk it’s affecting elementary schools as well?

It’s a safe bet there are no bargains to be found when the federal

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A roadside bomb killed three U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. You can always count on death, as Ben Franklin ruefully noted. And in Afghanistan, it seems, you can always count on taxes. Being screwed up. Big …

Concerning the perennial favorite – possible military-base closings – check out this exchange from a May 9 Senate hearing:

Senator Mark Begich, D-Alaska: I can tell you in Fairbanks, Alaska, where Eielson [Air Force Base] …

For the first time in history, the Navy launched a jet-powered, fighter-sized unmanned aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier Tuesday.

The Navy’s latest slogan is “a force for good.” The launch of the X-47B may be “a …