Mark Thompson

Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Thompson has covered national security in Washington since 1979, and for Time since 1994. Follow him on Twitter at @MarkThompson_DC

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Battleland Battleland

Mind Games

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 …

Battleland Battleland

Bronze Star

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 …

Battleland Battleland

Ambition? Or Hubris?

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 …

Battleland Battleland

Sky Pilot

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 …

Battleland Battleland

Disruptive Impatience

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, …

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