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TOKYO – Well, this is embarrassing.

Just days after the Marines handed out wallet cards reminding troops in the Pacific to behave ethically, the Army’s top general in Japan has been effectively fired over allegations that …

Thought Winslow Wheeler’s epic last week trying to nail down the cost of an F-35 Lightning II fighter was fascinating reading. Still waiting for someone to volunteer to make the contrary case.

Unfortunately, Wheeler simply …

TOKYO – The Marines have tried curfews, drinking restrictions and plain old jawboning to cut down crime and controversy on Okinawa, a key center of U.S. military power in the Pacific. Now they’re handing out reminder …

…the rules on dealing with troops who harm non-combatants in a war zone, without running afoul of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, is Hell’s next-door neighbor.

The Pentagon has just released a Defense Legal Policy …

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Each year the Defense Department’s comptroller, the Pentagon’s chief financial officer, publishes a report: Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System.

The public and Congress have a right to expect these …

It’s been a strong week for those pale folks, sprinkled in cubicles and tiny offices around Washington, who scratch their heads and ask: why is our military so screwed up? How should we fix it?

The initial volley came from …

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All good fighter jets are designed to climb into the sky. Unfortunately for the F-35, its price tag — as we have pointed out this week — is joining in the ascent as its fiscal wingman.

And it doesn’t matter …

Proving once again that the North Korean government is like New England’s weather — if you don’t like it, wait a few minutes, allegedly uttered by Mark Twain — Pyongyang is now saying it is reconsidering its April order to …