Mark Thompson

Despite all the drum-banging that President Obama was going to propose deep cuts in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, perhaps in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night (see here, and here, for example), his only references to …

No longer any point in pretending. The U.S. is in such a rush to pull out of Afghanistan, it is risking the sacrifice of 2,086 U.S. troops and more than a half-trillion dollars to put the “graveyard of empires” in its rear-view …

So: Did the Navy SEAL who allegedly killed Osama bin Laden get — in the provocative word on the cover of the March issue of Esquire magazine — “screwed” by the U.S. government?

Monday’s story released by Esquire …

If so, you won’t once you check out the specifications for Air Force ceremonial swords.

These are the beautiful swords that cadets at the Air Force Academy get (paid for with about $300 of their own money, deducted from …

North Korea apparently detonated a third nuclear device overnight. On Tuesday night, President Obama is slated to propose a cut from in the deployed U.S. nuclear stockpile from its current 1,700 warheads down to as few as …

The Pentagon inspector general confirmed Monday what anyone who has spent any time looking into military aircraft accidents knows: that when the pilot isn’t around to defend himself – or herself – the service tends to blame …

…all problems begin to look like a nail. According to a new Government Accountability Office report released Monday, the U.S. government spent 25 times more money on rebuilding Afghan security than it spent on humanitarian aid …

Like mushrooms spouting after a summer thunderstorm, there are all kinds of groups sprouting to denounce the prospect of sequestration – those pending budget cuts that could lop off up to $600 billion in Pentagon spending over …

The same day that the SEAL who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden is griping about being short-changed by the U.S. government at the end of his 16-year Navy career, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signs a memo titled …

In an “Esquire” article, the Navy SEAL who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden says he has nothing to show for his 16 years of service

If there’s one thing you’d think the Coast Guard had on hand, it’d be lifeguards. It’s always cool to see their orange-and-white choppers hovering over the roiling surf to rescue folks in peril.

So that’s why it …

Senior Obama Administration officials reportedly believe the U.S. nuclear arsenal can be cut by at least a third without hurting national security.

Of course, believing it secretly and declaring it openly are two different …

Chad Hutson Littlefield would have turned 36 on Monday. Instead, he will be buried Friday.

Littlefield was killed, along with ex-Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, allegedly by an Iraq war veteran at a shooting range last Saturday …