Vivienne Walt

Boasting about one’s weaponry is nothing unusual in war, where there’s little way of confirming the veracity of the claim.

In that, Syrian President Bashar Assad was following a long tradition of wartime leaders, when he …

PARIS — With battles raging in Congress over the Pentagon’s proposed budget cuts, a new report says the gap in military spending between the U.S. and the rest of the world is narrowing, with Washington’s erstwhile foes — …