Mark Thompson

Joe and Jane American don’t buy warships, satellites, tanks and jet fighters. But they do purchase clothes to wear in a variety of colors and patterns.

That’s what makes Thursday’s story in the Washington Post on the …

With apologies to the field artillery — who think of themselves as the kings of battle — that crown probably best sits atop the heads of those few commanders from long ago who could survey the entire battlefield, make a quick …

Second-guessing took stage center Wednesday at the Benghazi congressional hearing. As you may have heard, State Department officials criticized the Pentagon for failing to do enough when the U.S. consulate in that Libya city came …

A U.S. soldier faces possible disciplinary action for allegedly throwing stones at a picture of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in an eastern Afghanistan province several days ago.

The provincial government investigated reports …

Steve Vogel takes on a critical month-and-a-half in U.S. history that he argues saved the United States. In Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks that Saved the Nation, out this week, the Washington Post military reporter dives …

Landing a warplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier – especially one underway at night in rough seas – isn’t something for the fainthearted to try.

But imagine doing it without a heart of any kind inside the …

Battleland discussed the infuriating problem of sexual assaults in the ranks of the U.S. military on the PBS NewsHour Tuesday night – just as we did more than 16 years ago. Battleland may be a lot older, but the plague of …

There are some military commanders who, like Cher, Elvis and Oprah, are known by a single name: Napoleon, Patton and MacArthur come quickly to mind.

Army General Douglas MacArthur is historically significant not only because …

The arrest of Air Force Lieut. Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski – chief of the service’s sexual assault and prevention shop — early Sunday morning on charges of sexual assault, practically within the Pentagon’s penumbra, is a tragedy …

Call us old-fashioned, but there’s something especially bitter about losing a young mother in a military tragedy like last Friday’s KC-135 Stratotanker crash in Kyrgyzstan.

Air Force Captain Victoria “Tori” …

The future of aviation just flashed by at an eye-watering 3,000 miles an hour.

That’s Mach 5.1, for you space travelers. It was the longest air-breathing hypersonic – five times faster than sound, or Mach 5 — flight …

The future of Afghanistan begins at the end of next year, after U.S. combat troops depart and Afghan forces take over for keeps.

After spending more than a half-trillion dollars, it’s difficult keeping track of the state of …