Mark Thompson

Numbers have a precision to them that isn’t always warranted.

Take your very own U.S. defense budget, for example. Even after you’ve learned the difference among then-year, current-year and constant-year dollars, there can …

Anyone trying to get military records for a relative – or the subject of a news story – may have heard those dreaded words: Those records were lost.

What follows is like a military tattoo, in a precise order:

…in a …

One of the confounding things about sexual assault in the military is that is some corners it is tolerated, winked at, and/or laughed about. Yet elsewhere inside the same institution, the military goes to extraordinary lengths to …

My, how times change.

The shock of seeing World War II images in color never goes away for some of us. Cousin LIFE has posted an almost-gaudy series of images by the great photographer Carl Mydans tracing the fighting up Italy’s boot, which began 70 …

As the Pentagon weighs cuts in danger pay for some of its troops around the world in order to save money, it’s also considering spending up to $100,000…to irrigate a pair of Italian softball fields.

Apparently, the two ball

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Just like Wednesday’s post featuring nervous questions from companies seeking to bid on a contract to fly Afghan troops around their country, here’s one posted the same day by the Defense Logistics Agency. It’s seeking …

Only a day after our post on Romania’s fledgling missile-defense system, the Pentagon has this to say about it, in its daily list of contract announcements:

Kellogg Brown & Root Services Inc., Arlington, Va., was awarded a …

Well it happened – twice, to be precise.

The Navy’s unmanned X-47B jet-powered drone made repeated, safe landings aboard the carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia Wednesday (irony alert: George H.W. Bush …

Thumbing through Pentagon contracting documents can be mind-numbingly boring, although there’s far less chance of paper cuts these days since most documentation moved online. But the boilerplate requirements, specifications and …

You know it’s not a good letter in Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s inbox when the writer addresses him as “Charles.”

The latest such missive, written two days ago by John F. Sopko, the special inspector general for …

The Pentagon’s top weapons-buyer, Frank Kendall, has issued a study trying to measure the way the U.S. military buys its hardware, smartly and otherwise.

It was the above chart that caught our eye. It details, by service, …

Things are beginning to move on the Pentagon’s plan to build a ground-based missile-defense system in Romania to protect U.S. allies in southern Europe – as well as American troops in the region – from attack by Iranian …