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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of deta...
The New York Times | Elisabeth Bumiller | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is normally a mild-mannered man, at least in public, but he unleashed a torrent on his plane on Thursday morning abo...
AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing ...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
While President Obama continues to mull over his options for adding more U.S. troops to the mission in Afghanistan, he is also pressing for an increas...
CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more tro...
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...
Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.
Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
While the White House has yet to release President Obama's schedule, expect President Obama and President Hu Jintao to discuss military ties, global economic health, climate change and human rights.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
The news media has an annoying tendency to focus on the symptoms, not the disease.
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
The future of Western combat aviation today rests largely on one airplane: The Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media
For almost 30 years, American press coverage of Afghanistan has been simplistic, misleading, unexamining, accepting and echoing government propaganda, and just plain wrong. There
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva has announced that a new military deal between Colombia and the US could be signed as early as Friday. Under...
New York Times | Thom Shanker, Peter Baker and Helene Cooper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
President Obama's advisers are focusing on a strategy for Afghanistan aimed at protecting about 10 top population centers, administration officials sa...
John Graham | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
The collapse of US efforts in Vietnam was made inevitable by the pervasive corruption and incompetence of a succession of governments in South Vietnam -- and here lies the lesson for Afghanistan.
Reuters | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
In an interview with CNN's "State of the Union," Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the United States should not proceed ...
Nancy Lindborg | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
As hyper-partisanship continues to dominate the health care debate in the nation's capital, it might be easy to overlook a bipartisan consensus that has quietly but unmistakably emerged in the foreign policy spectrum.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
Even as we buy and produce new MRAPs, train the troops to use them, and look for ways to deliver them, the President is still attempting to define our strategy for how we will wage the war in Afghanistan.
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
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.
New York Times | Mark Landler and Thom Shanker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert...
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
In a time of crisis, Republicans begin to eat their own. The infighting has been going on for months and has occasionally touched the national security establishment.
Steven L. Spiegel | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
The facts speak for themselves. Anyone concerned with Israel's survival as a Jewish state should stop criticizing Obama's policies.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman doesn't go for a whole lot of media scolding -- a point he reiterates today in a related blog post, sayi...
Michael Carmichael | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
When Truman realized that General MacArthur was insubordinate, he dismissed him. When General McChrystal spoke out in London, he usurped the power of the president to design and execute foreign policy.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Comedy
In what some experts are calling a bold and unorthodox strategy, the U.S. Department of Defense has hired the Conde Nast magazine group to end the unpopular war in Afghanistan.
The Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson and Scott Wilson | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stressed Monday that military and civilian leaders should keep their advice to President Obama on Afghanistan privat...
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Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics