Mark Thompson

That’s the total number of digits that Battleland’s tried and true Texas Instruments’ TI-1795+ calculator can display.

We bought it nearly 20 years ago, and have used it nearly every day to keep track of Pentagon …

Getting the story out is important, whether you’re a reporter…or a sailor. That’s the bottom line of a Navy inquiry seeking help getting the Navy story out no matter where it takes place.

It seems the Navy has lots of …

A pair of the U.S. Air Force’s B-2 stealth bombers made the least-stealthy flight in their history Thursday, flying 13,000 miles round-trip from their Missouri base to fly over South Korea and drop inert bombs on a target range …

Missile defenses, up-armored Humvees, body armor – sometimes defense can get costly and complicated.

Then there’s the recollection of Indiana Army National Guard Major Bradley Compton, who spent much of 2003 and 2004 in …

It has been more than two months since the Navy’s mine-countermeasures ship USS Guardian ran aground on a reef off the Philippine coast. Bad weather has led to repeated delays in trying to take the vessel apart and remove her …

North Korea has spent the past week fulminating against recent U.S.-South Korean military exercises, including a B-52 flight Monday. But at the same time, the Korean Central News Agency was foaming at the keyboard over the …

Interesting video posted by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism tracking the U.S. drone rain over Pakistan since 9/11.

It’s hard to comprehend just how big a war the U.S. has waged clandestinely in that …

There is a growing sense among defense-budget watchers that the U.S. military and its political masters are pretending the shave the armed forces just got from sequestration’s blade isn’t going to lead to decapitation in what …

It was just over a year ago that Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Pentagon was scrapping one version of the RQ-4 Global Hawk spy drone after the Defense Department discovered it was cheaper to fly such missions …

The Pentagon is perpetually looking for ways to do things better, especially in the area of aircraft that can take off and land vertically. But, as with battery technology, progress is incremental at best.

Now the Defense …

The double-murder suicide at the Quantico Marine base 35 miles south of Washington comes as a shock. It stuns, not only because one Marine apparently used a gun to kill two others, and then himself, but because the nation counts …