Can one truly be both Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, both cunning and courteous Jedi Knight and Dark Lord of imperial power projection?
I am aghast to discover former congressman William J. Jefferson could depart Washington a convicted criminal and still take home approximately $60,000 a year in retirement pay.
BAGHDAD — The soldier at the center of the military's worst soldier-on-soldier violence in six years had gone to four counseling sessions. His r...
WASHINGTON — Dozens of volunteers and passers-by are stopping by an American Red Cross building on Veterans Day to sign holiday greetings cards ...
Civilian deaths in Afghanistan climbed in 2009 to their highest number since the fall of the Taliban, the United Nations says in a recent report. The...
Plan Z is one of those rare strategies that is hatched not from the mind of confused strategic thinkers by from the womb of Americana. What is Plan Z? Buy the bad guys.
This is the moment for the President to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." If Obama fails to seize it, many young LGBT service members will surely be fired, careers ruined.
WASHINGTON -- In a marketplace awash in consulting firms that help defense companies sell to the Pentagon, the Durango Group has a unique advantage. ...
As we roll the dice again in Central Asia, it's clear that we're pushing our Army and Marines too far. Naturally, our troops, notably the brass, will deny this. We Americans need to recognize the limits on our troops, even if they refuse to do so.
The battle of Wanat is being described as the "Black Hawk Down" of Afghanistan, with the 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three...
The top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, rejected calls for scaling down military objectives there on Thursday and said ...
No so very long ago, Afghanistan was known as "the forgotten war." But these days, Afghanistan is hard to miss in the headlines. Obama needs to begin talking about our newly-forgotten war: Iraq.
In addition to all the other problems we're facing -- the corruption of the Karzai government, the election chaos, the porous Pakistani border -- it h...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey r...
The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers antici...
Sen. Carl Levin's announcement today that he opposes sending more U.S. combat troops to Afghanistan is a big deal, but President Obama's Afghan policy...
GANJGAL, Afghanistan -- We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountains...
As the United States withdraws its combat forces from Iraq, the government is hiring more private guards to protect U.S. installations at a cost that ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused hi...
The problem with retired Army light colonel Andrew Krepinevich, the self-described "expert on US military strategy," isn't so much that he says silly ...
I have less and less respect for the way our civilian leaders lack the courage to tell the truth about our wars.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the U.S. forces must work to "turn around" the security situation in Afgha...
Rebecca Johnston, the mother of four featured in Barack Obama's 30-minute campaign infomercial last fall, will be shipping off to boot camp next Wedne...
Tthe bomb disposal expert in a self-contained suit approaches IEDs like an urban astronaut, symbolic of the otherworldly status that Iraq has achieved.
During the 10 months she was deployed in Iraq, Leydi Mendoza, a 22-year-old specialist in the New Jersey National Guard, did everything she could thin...
