Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?
If the Great Depression taught us anything, it is that slashing spending in the name of deficit reduction is a great way to exacerbate a bad economic situation.
If the Great Depression taught us anything, it is that slashing spending in the name of deficit reduction is a great way to exacerbate a bad economic situation.
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 ...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Robot war. It just couldn't be cooler, could it? Especially if the only blood you spill is the other guy's, since our "pilots" are flying those planes from thousands of miles away. So why am I not excited?
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...
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The Iraqi refugee tragedy continues to unfold. It is time for proactive policy and action, for Americans to make friends of the people we were seeking to help by doing the right things.
David Sullivan | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 has been making news because of all the things left out of it, including billions of dollars in cuts to expensive weapons systems.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
The news media has an annoying tendency to focus on the symptoms, not the disease.
Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...
ABC News | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Sources tell ABC News that as of now President Obama will likely announce his decision about a new strategy in Afghanistan at some point between the A...
Washington Post | Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
The Pentagon's top military officer oversaw a secret war game this month to evaluate the two primary military options that have been put forward by th...
The Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
A months-long review of documents and interviews with Pentagon personnel has revealed that the Bush Administration's military analyst program -- aimed...
New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
After nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise ...
AP | LARRY MARGASAK and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A scientist credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon was arrested Monday on charges of attempting to pass along...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Brian Palmer | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
Unbeknown to most Americans, the Departments of Defense and State maintain a wide web of military programs across Africa. Collectively, they fall under the jurisdiction of AFRICOM.
AP | ROBERT H. REID and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
KABUL — Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan bor...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
An Air Force colonel's new article is the closest we've ever come to recognition by an official Pentagon publication that "don't ask, don't tell" has got to go, and go soon.
New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON -- In an unusual show of support for allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces, an official military journal articl...
Gary Hart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
The national security state has become a kind of powerful prison with the president as warden. He has authority over it, but he cannot escape it.
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Military officials voiced frustration and congressional leaders urged caution Tuesday over what they described as President Barack ...
Diane Tucker | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
A brutal plundering of this rich cultural heritage has been taking place in broad daylight ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
David Sirota | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics