This week, some members of Congress drew a stark red line against any additional defense cuts, particularly those from a “Doomsday” trigger scenario if the Joint Deficit Reduction Committee fails or Congress does not pass their spending cut proposals.
“Defending Defense”–a joint initiative of The Heritage Foundation, American …
A tough week is nearly over. It’s been pouring nonstop in the East, floods are inundating the northeast, GOP presidential candidates are hectoring one another, fires are racing across Texas, President Obama’s pleading for work from Congress, and someone turned the lights out in San Diego.
Just thank God you’re not Commander Mark …
It’s not the $7,600 coffee pot or the $640 toilet seat — those 1980s-era examples of Pentagon over-spending that even normal taxpayers like us could understand — but it’s close. On Thursday the Pentagon issued a summary of an investigation into Sikorsky helicopter parts bought by the Army and found:
The Army “did not effectively …
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Roadside bombs kill too much. Pilots cost too much. Answer: an unmanned helicopter to ferry supplies to troops in the most dangerous corners of the world. This recent exercise shows it can be done. Next stop: a six-month field test in Afghanistan starting …
That’s just what the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team does:
It has been a difficult path to the ballpark for many of the players. After life-altering injuries, they had to rebuild. They were forced to heal with the help of rehabilitation and prosthetics, learned to accept their new physiques, and relearn how to do many of the
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Former naval aviator and Navy Secretary John Lehman — never one to mince words — asks Is Naval Aviation Culture Dead? in the latest issue of Proceedings, the monthly journal of the independent U.S. Naval Institute. He traces is all back to 1991’s Tailhook convention, a Las Vegas gathering of naval aviators who subjected dozens of …
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House Republicans fear the prospect of incoming defense cuts, and they’ve just produced a video to argue against them. Fair enough. “What is our military going to do if we keep cutting them?” asks Rep. Howard McKeon, chairman of the armed services committee. Of course, while …
World War II means two things to U.S. military veterans of a certain age: the building of the Pentagon, and LIFE magazine (TIME’s corporate sibling). Every week LIFE chronicled the war for millions of Americans.
LIFE.com has just released never-before published photographs of the Department of Defense headquarters building under …
On my desk I have a proposed bill ensuring no troop is “pressured to approve of another person’s sexual conduct if that sexual conduct is contrary to the personal principles of the member” with respect to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
What I should do here is point out what is obviously upsetting about this …
The literature of war can be literature — think Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage (Civil War), Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (World War I), or Neil Sheehan’s A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. And sometimes it’s less lit and more textbook. That’s surely the case with the …
It’s a fair question as the 10th anniversary of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon looms. After all, it was the most shocking macro-event most Americans alive have experienced. It changed our way of life, or at least our way of living. It also triggered two costly and continuing wars. If we did overreact, …
So plans are floating around the Pentagon — with the apparent blessing of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta — that call for a U.S. military force of only between 3,000 and 4,000 troops in Iraq starting next year. Under the existing deal with the Iraqi government — the one we helped install — all U.S. troops must be out by New Year’s …
