The campaigns of Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe both claim to be focused on positive messages about growing the economy and creating jobs in the Old Dominion. But nobody believes them.
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The New Era of Good F-35 Feelings
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There has been a lot of good news for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter recently. No longer are top Department of Defense officials covering their bets by casting aspersions at it; they are rallying to its defense, …
How to Fix the Post Office: Keep the ‘Last Mile,’ Outsource the Rest
A proposal to create a “hybrid” United States Postal Service would keep postal workers on their routes while allowing private companies to compete for mail collection, transportation, and processing.
The Rise (and Fall) of the VA Backlog
Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs likely won’t acknowledge it publicly until later this year, but those responsible for processing disability claims believe the infamous “backlog” peaked more than two months …
How Much Does an F-35 Fighter Really Cost?
There’s been a rash of recent reports that the U.S. military has wrestled the F-35’s cost growth to the mat. They come from some heavy hitters: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Air Force Lieut. General Christopher Bogdan, the …
A Single Bound
Staff Sgt. Ray Perez-Rosa clears a canal while on a foot patrol to counteract indirect fire near Combat Outpost Baraki Barak, May 21.
Imposing Justice Outside the Chain of Command Looking Pretty Good at the Naval Academy
Now three members of the U.S. Naval Academy’s football team find themselves the subject of an investigation into charges they raped a fellow midshipman a year ago at a house the football team apparently rented illicitly …
War Stories: Psychiatrists on the Front Lines
Two of the most powerful workshops at the recent American Psychiatric Association annual meeting were the panels of psychiatrists talking about their personal experiences in war zones.
They were part of the Military Track, a …
Houston Fire Kills Four Firefighters
A five-alarm blaze that engulfed a restaurant and hotel in southwest Houston on Friday has claimed the lives of four firefighters and injured five others, according to the mayor’s office.
Targeted Spending
Skeptics of the level of U.S. military spending sometimes like to say “We’re in an arms race – with ourselves!”
In other words, we’ve been known to peddle our fourth-generation fighters like the F-16 and F-18 to so …
General McChrystal’s New Mission
General Stan McChrystal made an important statement in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
He announced an ambitious new plan for serious national service. The plan—the Franklin Project—was hatched under aegis of the Aspen …
$108,828,819.75
— Each. Check out this Navy contract for CH-53K Super (Costly) Stallion helicopters awarded to Sikorsky on Thursday, here. Remember when choppers were cheap?
Building a Smarter, Smaller Army
It’s time to resize the U.S. Army given the nation’s fiscal realities and what we’re likely to need it to do in the foreseeable future.
In my new book, Healing the Wounded Giant: Maintaining Military Preeminence While …