It's time we appoint a woman to run the Secret Service, ending the boys-will-be-boys attitude around sexual abuse and exploitation that feeds organized crime.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.05.2012
As indicated in prior blogs and on www.kotlikoff2012.org, I'm running for president on the Americans Elect platform. (If you would like to support my...
William Bradley | Posted 01.12.2012
After two big wars in 10 years, the country is fractured and fatigued, the economy sputtering after a near depression, with few Americans having any real experience or familiarity with the military.
Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 11.18.2011
My solution for fear based discussions about Gov 2.0? Look around. See all the successful implementations of open data, of social connectivity for Government and Citizens alike and see the results.
Dorian de Wind | Posted 10.15.2011
David Petraeus will be trading the honor of a possible fifth silver star for the solemn responsibility -- and honor -- of ensuring that the ultimate sacrifices represented by the more than 100 stars forever carved on that Memorial Wall will not have been for naught.
AP | Posted 10.02.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to approve President Barack Obama's nomination of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey to be the next chairman of the Joint...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 09.29.2011
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan -- A half a world away from the Capitol Hill deadlock, the economy and debt crisis are weighing heavily on U.S. troops i...
AP | MANUEL VALDES | Posted 09.22.2011
SEATTLE — Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, the first foreign-born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who counseled President Bill Clint...
AP | By ROBERT BURNS | Posted 08.23.2011
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military's top officer told Congress on Thursday that President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw up to 33,000 troops from Af...
AP | By ROBERT BURNS | Posted 08.01.2011
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY PLANE OVER THE PACIFIC (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the reshaping of much of President Barack Obama's natio...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 07.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- The man chosen to lead the U.S. military as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the difficult years ahead is a muddy-boots comb...
AP | By ROBERT BURNS | Posted 07.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama moved Monday to complete an overhaul of his national security team, selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as the nex...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 07.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A general installed just last month as the Army's top officer is President Barack Obama's surprise choice to become the next chairm...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Although many Republicans are still arguing that the Defense Department should be exempt from the belt-tightening the rest of the countr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Pentagon officials said Friday that the Department of Defense is moving to speed the rollback of "don't ask, don't tell," and that Defen...
Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011
Would our nation and our war effort in Afghanistan benefit from the appointment of a five-star general, a General of the Army, and should it be Gen. David Petraeus? I say "yes" to both.
Posted 05.25.2011
General Hugh Shelton, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001 of the United States, spoke to Jon Stewart last night abou...
Nigel Barber | Posted 05.25.2011
A military that accepts differences, whether of race, or gender, or sexual orientation, is bound to be stronger. That is the take home message from the survey conducted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Posted 05.25.2011
Republican Mark Kirk, the newest member of the U.S. Senate and longtime Chicago-area congressman, said he will study a Pentagon report on repealing "D...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011
The New START treaty has the unanimous support of America's military leaders. But you wouldn't know it from the wails of the far-right, ignore-the-military pack led by Sarah Palin.
Rob Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011
Sarah "Barracuda" has done it again. In her 24/7, at-any-cost quest to stay in the media spotlight--and thus, by her calculation, relevant--Sarah Pal...
Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the past 60 years the U.S. has been involved in more than 10 wars and invasions. These have included World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the B...
Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011
For almost four decades, under cover of his supposedly "objective" reporting, Woodward has represented the viewpoints of the military and intelligence establishments. Often he has done so in the context of complex inside maneuvering.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011
America's highest-ranking military official thinks the U.S. has bigger security problems than al-Qaeda, suicide bombers and an increasingly deadly nin...
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
Let us hope and pray that Obama's recent nuclear disarmament accomplishments are steps on the path to the eventual abolition of all nuclear weapons.
Lori Handrahan | Posted 04.19.2012