Yet another military scandal erupted earlier this month when Foodbeast blogger Charisma Madarang questioned the military service of Cap’n Crunch. While the cereal icon (né Horatio Magellan Crunch) has captained the S.S. Guppy …
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Military medicine has received a lot of well-deserved attention in the wars launched since 9/11. More wounded troops than ever are surviving the battlefield, and there are many advances both there and back home that have made …
“From an architecture standpoint, certainly we could support that policy decision. But I guess I'll defer to the policymakers on whether that is a position that the United States, this Administration, the national leadership would choose to take. Within the system itself, on the platform, there's absolutely no reason we couldn't support that type of a policy decision.”
— Vice Admiral Terry Benedict, director of Navy Strategic System Programs, speaking Wednesday on whether the submarine fleet’s nuclear missiles can be taken off their current hair-trigger alert, as advocated in this report. Candidate Barack Obama said he would work with the Russians to de-alert nuclear weapons, but his 2010 Nuclear Posture Review opted to keep the nation’s nuclear weapons primed for attack.
Helicopter Gunship
A CH-47 Chinook flies an M777 howitzer from FOB Hadrian to Kandahar airfield June 18.
Video: The Changing Views of Liberal Politicians on DOMA, 1996 to 2013
From Bill and Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama, liberal politicians opposed gay marriage until recently. Here’s what they said then and now.
Meet the Woman Behind the Texas Abortion Filibuster
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Congress Says Special-Ops Budget Top Too Secret
While details on spending on specific national-security programs are sometimes kept from the public, such secrecy is not supposed to extend to Congress. Lawmakers are supposed to have detailed information on Executive-Branch …
Supreme Victory: Gay Marriage Decisions Spark Celebration
Gay couples and activists across the country are celebrating two Supreme Court rulings, one declaring the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and the other clearing the way for same-sex marriage in …
How Edward Snowden Snuck Through
Background checks are one of those commodities you typically only realize are flawed when it’s too late, after someone who shouldn’t have been cleared is caught doing some nefarious deed.
As Edward Snowden is traipsing …
What Is PTSD…And Who Is It For?
The light went on in my head during a debate over PTSD nomenclature last year.
Then-president of the American Psychiatric Association, John Oldham, was chairing a session entitled Combat-Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?
A …
FDA Approves New Cigarettes in First Use of New Regulatory Power Over Tobacco
It’s taken four years, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally exerted its authority to review and regulate cigarettes and certain tobacco products
Oh-Dark-30 Mission
Army 1st Lt. Dan Hewing readies an MRAP before a June 24 patrol in Helmand province.