Mark Thompson

Navy gospel — as well as U.S. naval fleets and strategy — are built around $15 billion aircraft carriers, outfitted with dozens of $150 million airplanes.

Only one thing worse than someone criticizing the backbone of the …

U.S. Special Operations Command is buying up to 5,150 Remington precision sniper rifles for $80 million, according to a decade-long contract announced Monday, here. That works out to $15,500 per rifle. Rounds – up to 912 per …

From the Pentagon to Panmunjom, U.S. defense officials conceded on Monday they are perplexed, and pondering, what Pyongyang will do next. American and South Korean defense officials are used to strange words and deeds from North …

Nearly two weeks into the sequester, there’s no sign of compromise on the horizon. This could stick for a while, apparently. The Marines, for example, are slated to lose $1.4 billion out of their planned spending through …

Grappling with the challenges of soldiers back from war is a challenge. Nothing makes that more clear than the up-and-down year that an Army doctor, Colonel Dallas Homas, the top doc at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base …

India and Pakistan are the children of the British raj. But like many siblings, they don’t get along. India is the world’s largest democracy, and soon will become the planet’s most populous nation. Pakistan, the globe’s …

Slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle has been dead for just over a month, but already there’s a plan afoot to honor the sniper forever in bronze.

Greg Marra from Sarasota, Fla., has created a life-size sculpture of the 6-foot-3 Kyle …

Skimming Pentagon contract announcements and solicitations can give one a sense of just how much the federal government is trying to do in the national-security arena.

But sometimes you come across one that makes you scratch …

Chaplains can be an important part of life for troops in combat. Chatting with Chappie can help them through tough times without the baggage they sense they’d incur by visiting their unit’s psychiatrist or other kind of …

Most folks working for the Department of Veterans Affairs are good people dedicated to their mission. But not all are.

Come to find out, the same thing’s true of their patients, according to the charmingly-titled new report, …

In flying, an Immelman is a kind of looping turn, popular during World War I, that sends an aircraft in the opposite direction.

Did the U.S. Air Force just pull an Immelman in the sexual-misconduct case of Lieut. Colonel James …

You knew that was coming, right? Just didn’t think the Navy and Air Force would have enough sense of humor about it to make it effective April 1.

The Air Force Thunderbirds, here, are the precision flyboys who put their …

One thing Battleland has learned over many years of trying to pay attention to Pentagon goings-on is that things aren’t always what they seem.

Outsiders tend to see plots and conspiracies, when in reality the U.S. military …