1,600 Museums Offer Free Tickets To Military Families
WASHINGTON -- More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in...
WASHINGTON -- More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in...
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.16.2012
The VA has done nothing more than give sound advice based on the best medical and public health knowledge about the risks of guns. For doing so, it now faces the wrath of the gun lobby.
Forbes Woman | Posted 05.11.2012
The Defense Department recently announced new policies that will open more than 14,000 military job opportunities to women. Which seems like a great s...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.27.2012
The nations' governors are asking Congress to restore funding for the Air National Guard, saying that talks with the U.S. Department of Defense have f...
AP | DESMOND BUTLER | Posted 04.21.2012
WASHINGTON — Major delays, cost overruns and critical technological problems are plaguing a missile defense system designed to protect the Unite...
New York Times | Posted 02.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight...
AP | Posted 03.31.2012
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is reviewing its timetable for buying 12 of the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighters between 2015 and 2017 after...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.29.2011
In light of statistics that show staggering rates of sexual assault in the U.S. military, the Department of Defense announced on Tuesday two new polic...
The New York Times | JAMES DAO | Posted 12.23.2011
Black women are enlisting in the military at far higher rates than are white or Hispanic women, and they now represent nearly a third of all the women...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.16.2012
This week, the Pentagon marked the official end to the war in Iraq with a brief ceremony in a secure part of the Baghdad airport -- helicopters hovering protectively overhead. Although Defense Secretary Leon Panetta later declared that the cost paid by America was "worth it," a look at the price tag offers a more sobering assessment: 4,487 U.S. military personnel killed, over 2,000 U.S. government contractors killed, over 40,000 American troops wounded, over 100,000 Iraqis killed, at least 2 million Iraqis displaced from their homes, and a final tab that could ultimately reach $4 trillion doled out by U.S. taxpayers (a far cry from the $50 billion to $80 billion the Defense Department originally predicted it would cost). And beyond the cost in lives and treasure are the less quantifiable costs we'll be paying for years to come, including the strengthening of Iran and the weakening of America's moral standing in the world.
AP | By SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 12.15.2011
WASHINGTON -- A black former Defense Department worker has filed a discrimination lawsuit alleging her complaints about workplace harassment prompted ...
AP | By GENE JOHNSON | Posted 12.08.2011
SEATTLE -- Applause and cheers rang out after Unionized Boeing Machinists voted overwhelmingly to approve a four-year contract extension – a dea...
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 01.23.2012
A disturbing trend among some Republicans lately, as we saw in last night's debate, is to treat any terror-related crime as something completely new and different, which needn't comply with even our most basic sense of decency, let alone U.S. law.
Mother Jones | Adam Weinstein | Posted 11.21.2011
With time fast running out for the so-called deficit supercommittee, the mammoth amount of government money spent on the military has become a prime t...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 11.18.2011
\WASHINGTON -- Two Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan this week while President Obama was in Asia to proclaim a new U.S. strategic focus o...
AOL Defense | Carlo Munoz | Posted 01.11.2012
Pentagon: It's official: the Pentagon will get roughly halfway to the Obama administration's goal of cutting up to $500 billion in defense spending ov...
AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 01.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- The same Republicans who insist that federal spending doesn't create jobs and should be cut in the face of staggering deficits are leadi...
AOL Defense | Winslow Wheeler | Posted 12.14.2011
Until Tuesday Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta had been describing Pentagon budget cuts beyond the $450 billion over 10 years he and President Obama ...
Len Hollie | Posted 11.28.2011
Helen Benedict has written five novels and five books of non-fiction. I recently spoke with Benedict about the unique undertaking of writing both fiction and non-fiction from the same research material.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 11.23.2011
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been predicting doom should his department be forced to make considerable budget cuts, but a GAO report released Fr...
Posted 11.22.2011
DENVER -- A third of military personnel who committed suicide last year had told at least one person they planned to take their own lives, a newly rel...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- Tuesday's parties celebrating the end of "don't ask, don't tell" are giving way to a morning-after reality: gays who left the military b...
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 11.16.2011
As if we didn't have enough wars already, a battle is now reportedly taking place within the Obama administration over whether the U.S. government has the legal authority to kill low-level suspected terrorist supporters where the U.S. now has troops on the ground.
AP | By ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- Large new cuts in defense spending would "terribly weaken" U.S. national security, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday as he and...
AP | By JULIE WATSON | Posted 10.13.2011
SAN DIEGO -- Former Air Force officer Michael Almy's five-year battle to get back into the military after being discharged for being gay is still far ...
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.23.2012