Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment Survives
An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who deny victims of sexual assault the right to bring their case in court...
An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who deny victims of sexual assault the right to bring their case in court...
R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.
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...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology
Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
When thirty Republicans lined up against an amendment that would have required defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in c...
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...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business
Should the U.S. Small Business Administration be in the business of helping small-business owners procure federal contracts?
The Associated Press | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
As of Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at least 791 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasi...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
KABUL — Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan bor...
New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 11.30.2009 | 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...
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
If a person in US custody is presumed innocent until proven guilty, then it does not matter whether or not torture works, does it? We don't torture innocent people, right?
Craig Newmark | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media
The Department of Defense is asking military families what they really need from social media. It's not an easy issue, since there are a lot of legitimate security and privacy concerns.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have cri...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
For once, American manufacturers are producing the best weapons ahead of schedule, and will save lives of men who would die without them.
Gordon Adams | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
For a major program to emerge, thrive, and survive, it takes three players: the service that wants and will advocate for the program, a contractor for whom the program is major business, and members of Congress.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
This tale recounts the interwoven fate of an Air Force Chief of Staff, potentially disastrous handling of nuclear weapons, and a financial advising company with more than 300,000 military personnel as investors.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Our military procurement system is a mess. Our automobile industry is a mess. We might have helped both if we had gotten them to agree to build the next generation of military vehicles together.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.
Dina Rasor | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
The Pentagon uses historic costs to base how much a new weapon will cost. This is a fundamental flaw that dooms us to pay exponentially more for each new generation of weapons.
Helen Benedict | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
The Pentagon released its annual report on military sexual assault. Reports of sexual assault have risen 8 percent in military as a whole. Yet to the Department of Defense this is good news.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
A tiny office in the Pentagon employs a handful of military officers, teamed up with outside contractors, to study the future....
Plum Line | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Here's a key question: Will the existence of Bush-era holdovers in the Defense Department impede the Obama administration's vow to make a clean break ...
AP | CHRIS TOMLINSON | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls "the human ter...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics