Thought you'd heard every conceivable reason for a Detroit bailout? Think again. From an op-ed by retired General Wesley Clark:

"Some economists question the wisdom of Washington's intervening to help the Big Three, arguing that the automakers should pay the price for their own mistakes or that the...

Mirror-imaging is the practice of believing that an adversary will think, fight, or react the same way you do. In many respects, it is a failure of imagination - an inability to break out of your own world-view to see yourself through the eyes of another. Recent events have me...

Senator Barack Obama recently gave an interview to the Military Times family of newspapers, in which he made the following remarkable statement:

I don't know a higher [military] priority than making sure that the men and women who are putting themselves in harm's way, day in and...

Napoleon's armies may have famously marched on their stomachs, but these days, the American Armed Forces don't move a muscle without contractors. The numbers are staggering -- by some accounts, contract personnel outnumber US forces in Iraq, and no one disputes that private security contractors constitute the second largest...

Ask any veteran to name the person they remember most from their service, and I'll lay you even odds that he or she will talk about one of their non-commissioned officers (NCOs). Sergeants (or petty officers, for you Navy types) are the backbone of the American Armed forces...

Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation's senior military officer, recently published some strong words to the force about the need to steer clear of the upcoming presidential election:

"The US military must remain apolitical at all times and in all ways....

I had the privilege this week of presenting some awards, on behalf of the incredible staff at the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, to some folks who have done amazing work in trying to reduce the stigma of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among men and women in uniform.

I have a dirty little secret -- I'm at least two "generations" apart from the majority of the force. I came into the Army at a time when we were trying to figure out just what we were supposed to do in a post-Cold War World. I vividly remember several...

On Sunday, the NY Times published a damning indictment of what it called "a Pentagon information apparatus that has used [retired military] analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage":

The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought...