Obama Pentagon

There is much to criticize in the Pentagon's new strategy -- most notably its unwillingness to sharply curtail the number of missions expected of our armed forces. But there are positive elements of the administration's proposed approach as well.

It's not that DOD is flunking audits. You flunk an audit when you track the money and find it was not spent as intended. DOD cannot track the money; the Department of Defense is unauditable.

it is one thing to give the Pentagon considerable weight and another thing altogether to let it dictate the timing and terms of the debate, and the final decision.

Discrimination in our armed forces carries a potent symbolism: It tells an entire class of people that the country is not interested in their service.

The Air Force is about to discharge this guy, a virtual poster boy for recruiting, because he is gay? Someone has to be kidding. This is sheer madness.

A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention center concludes that the prison complies with the h...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the fight against terrorism is "uppermost on our minds" as he takes over management of wars in Iraq and...

President Obama is scheduled to visit the Pentagon tomorrow afternoon, where he is to meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other military lead...

President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.'s civilian and military space programs to speed up a miss...

The combination of lobbying and PAC money that pours into election coffers every two years gives the arms industry enormous influence.

Although President-elect Barack Obama's decision to keep Robert M. Gates at the helm of the Pentagon will provide a measure of continuity for a milita...

In keeping Gates, Obama is actually indicating that he is very serious about instituting significant reform of the Pentagon.

Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went unarmed into his first meeting with the new commander in chief -- no aides, no Po...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will give President-elect Barack Obama's transition team a rundown of "key decision points" it will face in his first ...

The WSJ reports: President-elect Barack Obama is leaning toward asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his position for at least a year,...

A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's curre...

McCain is demonstrably criticizing Obama for following a Pentagon rule to which the McCain campaign itself has been subjected recently. That's a fact.