Troop Costs Vie With Weapons The non-partisan CBO said defense budgets must grow by at least six percent beginning next year to pay for weapons programs...
Afghan IEDs Hammered Soviets IEDs and mines were favorite weapons of the Afghan mujaheddin used to lethal effect against the Soviets during the 1980s...
Pray For NG Tanker Or Else! Only in America. We've got a story where the players are God, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Velma Jackson, a Mobile, Ala...
Lockheed MULE Still Kicking Early reports of the demise of Lockheed Martin's MULE program were exaggerated. The company put out a statement clarifying...
2011 Budget Boosts Rotary Wing The chief of the Army's aviation branch recently said that Afghanistan is America's third helicopter war; Vietnam and Iraq...
Fighter Gap 'Shrinks' To 100 Planes The much-debated carrier fighter gap stretches about 100 planes wide in 2018. That is what Defense Secretary Robert Gates...
Too Few CG Cutters For Demands Coast Guard commandant Adm. Thad Allen said that his National Security Cutter is a better ship for partnering with foreign...
Skelton Disses Gates' F136 Study The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee called Defense Secretary Robert Gates' principal arguments against the...
Northrop Drops Tanker Bid <strong>UPDATED: DepSecDef Lynn Says U.S. 'Disappointed' By NG Decision</strong> More than eight years since Boeing first tried to supply new...
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...