The two pilots who spoke to 60 Minutes and the many more who unusually spoke out against higher ranking military officers were exercising the very right guaranteed in the constitution.
William Hartung | Posted 05.03.2012
Wednesday Lockheed Martin delivered the last of 187 F-22 Raptor fighter jets to the U.S. Air Force. The roll out prompted executives to describe the plane as "the baddest bird on the planet" and "an icon of American power." The facts suggest otherwise.
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 03.11.2012
Today, Heritage's defense efforts are homilies supporting smaller forces, less people in uniform, and more dollars to buy fewer weapons of increasing ineffectiveness. How sad. How pathetic. How destructive to the security of Americans.
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011
Military spending, which is at its highest levels since the end of WWII, is facing bipartisan opposition in Congress. In this hyper-partisan age, that's saying something.
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011
Whatever that final unit cost may be, to predict it now will surely be met with derisive laughter from advocates of this ongoing disaster -- laughter that will last only until the actual bill arrives.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Reasonable people worry about the world that has been bequeathed to them by the Supreme Court Justices who upended campaign finance laws in the Citize...
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011
We need to scrutinize the Pentagon's budget every way possible to find a way to cut costs. If we don't take scalpel in hand, then we have no chance whatsoever of achieving fiscal sanity.
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011
The Pentagon has a time honored tradition of assigning PR nicknames to its aircrafts. The moniker of Lockheed's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is "Lightning II," named after its glitzy but unsuccessful WWII fighter.
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011
After a long fight, Gates and President Obama ultimately prevailed this summer in ending further F-22 production. Game over. Right? Anyone who thinks so doesn't appreciate the staying power of Congress' porkers.
Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011
Palin's saying Obama wasn't acknowledging the sacrifices of our troops can mean only two things: either her mind exists on an entirely different planet, or she knows she's being completely disingenuous.
Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military op...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House went along with Defense Secretary Robert Gates' plans to kill the over-budget F-22 fighter jet, but...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
You can always use an extra transport plane -- that's the way I figured it. I knew just where to find one, too. I called Congress.
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama has started his fight with America's great dragon, the military-industrial complex. The toe, in this case, is the F-22, a stealth fighter jet.
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011
The military-industrial complex may have lost the battle over funding for F-22s, but defense contractors continue to prevail in the fight to finance p...
Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
There's whitewash and greenwash and there's also Raptorwash.
The Progress Report | Posted 05.25.2011
The Center for American Progress Action Fund has launched the Sensible Defense campaign to "hold Congress accountable for putting wasteful defense spending back into the budget."
Gordon Adams | Posted 05.25.2011
For a major program to emerge, thrive, and survive, it takes three players: the service that wants and will advocate for the program, a contractor for whom the program is major business, and members of Congress.
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011
There are 187 F-22s that have yet to fly a single combat mission. The news that Congress might stop production of this high-profit weapons system is a considerable victory for logic.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to halt production of the Air Force's missile-eluding F-22 Raptor fighter jets in a high-stakes showdown o...
Max Bergmann | Posted 05.25.2011
This fight was about whether the Pentagon would be able to institutionalize the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan and finally move out of the Cold War strategic mindset that still dominates.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, returned to the chamber Tuesday after being absent for more than two months du...
Paul Ruth | Posted 05.09.2012