Mark Thompson

A couple of members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at one of last week’s hearings into the impact of sequestration’s looming budget cuts that more U.S. troops – and even civilians – will die if those cuts occur.

It’s a …

So there has been a fair amount of blowback from U.S. troops and veterans on the Pentagon‘s announcement last week of the Distinguished Warfare Medal, created to recognize the battlefield contributions of troops who don’t risk …

Friday’s Pentagon contract announcement of “a five-year, sole source, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, task order contract” to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., …

Steuart L. Pittman, the man who tried to woo Americans into fallout shelters a half-century ago to protect them from nuclear fallout, has died.

Pittman served as the chief of President John Kennedy’s civil defense program. …

Things were going swimmingly at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Thursday looking into the impact sequestration’s budget cuts would have on the government. Then Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the …

Interesting to read the back-and-forth between Robert Zarate of the Foreign Policy Initiative, and Kingston Reif of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, over how big the U.S. nuclear stockpile should be.

It …

The Army is the nation’s ground-pounding force. It flies helicopters, but it leaves most of the fixed-wing fun to the Air Force, Navy and Marines (cf. F-35, which is being flown by those three services, but not the …

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta flew home to California late Thursday, but unfortunately – for him – his job went with him, too.

He was hoping that the Senate would confirm former Republican senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska …

We’re not going to use the name of the female Army officer who did this recent formal Army interview following her two deployments to Iraq.

But we came across it, and felt it was worth sharing:

The reason I haven’t …

Marine Major Aric “Walleye” Liberman was uncharacteristically modest for a Navy SEAL turned fighter pilot. He had just landed an F-35–one of the 2,457 jets the Pentagon plans to buy for $400 billion, making it the costliest …

Christopher Tuck has an article in the latest issue of Parameters, the U.S. Army’s professional journal, entitled Afghanistan: Strategy and War Termination.

A lecturer at the Department of Defence Studies at King’s College …

The Government Accountability Office issued a report Wednesday with an eye-glazing title: Defense Health: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Combat Casualty Care Research Achieves Goals.

But it contained some interesting numbers: …

What does it mean when the nation creates a new medal for deskbound warriors for distinguished service in war — when they are not at any risk themselves?

…and in fact may be operating a Predator drone in Nevada, hoping to …