As President Obama heads to Norfolk on Tuesday to warn of the biggest attack on the Navy’s fleet since Pearl Harbor – that would be the budget cuts mandated under the sequester, slated to start Friday – the Navy itself …
U.S. soldiers load a U.S. OH-58 helicopter onto a Russian Antonov AN-124 cargo plane at Bagram Airfield, Feb. 8.
A year after the fatal shooting of a Florida teenager made national headlines, a look at the major players in the ongoing case against his killer.
The U.S. Senate confirmed former senator Chuck Hagel as defense secretary Tuesday after a long, drawn-out confirmation battle.
Early Tuesday afternoon, he cleared the most critical hurdle when the Senate voted 71-27 to cut …
Ever since the Cold War ended, the Pentagon has been pushing to become more “flexible” and “agile,” to use two words frequently heard at Defense Department briefings and found burrowed into innumerable Pentagon …
If the Academy Awards can be said to register the cultural pulse of the nation, America clearly retains its uneasy fascination with the politics and psychology of war.
From the Paris Uprising and the U.S. Civil War, to the …
The news that the Pentagon’s fleet of 51 F-35 fighters has been grounded because of a half-inch crack in one of its engine’s turbine blade is one of those problems that can truly be called a teething issue: it’s something that …
Marine 1st Sgt. Joshua Clayton eats a live scorpion Feb. 17 as part of training during Operation Cobra Gold in Thailand.
“If we don't believe our military leaders, then who in the world do we believe?”
Once a month, a group in North Florida takes men, women and children into the wild and trains them in survival skills — including the handling of high-powered weapons
For more than a decade, we’ve been getting somber Pentagon emails telling us the name, hometown and age of every U.S. troop killed in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Noticed something new, at least to us, in …
