Shortly after 9/11, the Central Intelligence Agency began secretly killing suspected Taliban and al Qaeda militants in western Pakistan with Predator drones. The Pakistani government was so eager to hide the CIA’s fingerprints …
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“All Aboard!”
Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne prepare to board a C-17 Globemaster to take part in an airborne training operation Feb. 25, at Fort Bragg, N.C.
SEALs Seeking Outside Dog Trainers…And Apparently Outside Dogs, Too
Seeing as the SEALs already are hiring outsiders to train them how to survive in the cold, how to fight, and how to get in and out of hot spots, it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that they’re seeking outside help for …
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Expectant Parents Die in Hit-and-Run: Photos of a Close-Knit Community in Mourning
It’s among the most exciting moments of a young couple’s life: Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were rushing from their Brooklyn, N.Y. home early Sunday morning to the hospital where they were expected to give birth to their …
A Contrary Voice on Women in Combat
Last month, outgoing defense secretary Leon Panetta declared men and women would have the same chance to fight in combat for the first time in our nation’s history. But from the day they meet a recruiter, until the day they are …
The Fuller Brush-Off, Man
There was a dire story on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times datelined Arlington, Va. – the Pentagon’s ‘hood:
“Virginia’s Feast on U.S. Funds Nears an End”
…the headline said. Reporter Trip Gabriel reported from …
Air Warrior, R.I.P.
The Army aviator who helped kill the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter – a $40 billion program to build 650 scout choppers that was put out of its misery in 2004 after the Pentagon spent $8 billion for zero operational aircraft — has …
Will Reform of Fannie and Freddie Kill the 30-Year Mortgage?
Fannie and Freddie are still owned by the federal government and are the only thing holding the U.S.’ badly battered housing-finance system together, as the Feds back 9 out of 10 mortgages issued today.
Decision-Making, Lite
How much outside advice – from the Pentagon and other places – does a President need before making national-security decisions? Plainly he doesn’t need any, short of going to war (and even that is now in question, as we’ll …
Female Marines Train For Combat
A recent change in the rules means young women soon will be eligible to go into harm’s way with the U.S. military’s most elite fighting force.
The “Defense Reduction (Dys)Function”
Well, here it is. The guts of the Pentagon’s share of sequestration, as detailed in a letter late Friday to congressional leaders from Jeffrey Zients, the deputy director for management of the White House’s Office of Management …
Manning Scores ‘Touchdown’ With U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
With the sad and all-too predictable guilty plea Thursday from PFC Bradley Manning for turning over reams of classified data to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks — and the resulting flood of media attention — it came as a …