Cyber Can Kill SAMs Now that cyber command has been approved and it's grown increasingly clear that the US will deploy offensive capabilities, I...
Hate Crimes Trumps F-22 The Senate, a place of strange and magisterial customs, decided today that hate crimes legislation was, temporarily at least...
Army Planning for Last War? The incoming commander of the famous 10th Mountain Division, Maj. Gen. James Terry, sat down with defense reporters to talk...
Human Intel Or Technical Intel? In a briefing to reporters last week, CSIS's Anthony Cordesman lamented the quality of intelligence on the insurgency in...
'Pratt Fall' In Engine Wars Pratt & Whitney's lobbyists have been working hard all through this congressional session to finally put the kibosh on the GE...
OSD Considers Chopping Flattop File this one under QDR rumors, although senior OSD officials thought about cutting a carrier from the very beginning of the...
No Jack Keane's This Time At Thursday’s Pentagon press conference, neither SecDef Gates nor JCS chair Mullen would discuss what was in Afghan commander...
SBIRS Problems Persist: New Sats Needed Persistent hardware and software problems that have dogged the Space Based Infrared System for almost two years have not yet...
F135 Damage 'Significant' Or Easy Fix? <strong>UPDATED: Congressional Staffer Questions Pratt; OSD Document Says Damage to Engine Was "Significant"</strong> This is a tale of at...
Kandahar, World's Busiest Runway The flight ramp at Kandahar airfield is crammed full of drones and strike aircraft supporting the added troops arriving in...
Here Is the 2025 Pay Raise for Disabled Veterans and Military Retirees Military retirees and disabled veterans will receive 2.5% increases to their monthly paychecks for 2025, thanks to the annual...
Army Says Soldiers Should Avoid Poppy Seeds in Updated Regulation over Drug-Testing Concerns While poppy seeds are often an ingredient in baked goods and pastries, they also -- depending on how they are harvested and...
'Like Freeing a Ghost': A Sailor's Strange and Wondrous Journey Back from Pearl Harbor Some service members killed aboard the Oklahoma were identified, but most, like Titterington, were laid in mass graves...
Military Board Substantiates Misconduct But Declines to Fire Marine Who Adopted Afghan Orphan A U.S. Marine whose adoption of an Afghan war orphan has spurred a yearslong legal battle and raised alarms at the highest...
The Tactical Knife that Saved a Medal of Honor Recipient’s Life During Intense Hand-to-Hand Combat in Iraq Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his heroic actions during the Second Battle of...