Defense Secretary Leon Panetta outlined his budget forecast for a smaller, more cost-conscious and land-war averse military — and the hand of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was all over the fine print.
Posted on 26 January 2012
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta outlined his budget forecast for a smaller, more cost-conscious and land-war averse military — and the hand of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was all over the fine print.
Posted on 27 January 2012
The Fisher House Foundation is opening a new facility in England for the families of wounded British troops to stay during their recovery.
Posted on 25 January 2012
“They’re not consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together,” President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address.
Posted on 25 January 2012
U.S. Navy SEALs pulled off another successful mission, this time in Somalia where they rescued an American aid worker and her Danish colleague.
Posted on 24 January 2012
To highlight the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” an openly gay Air Force colonel and her partner are attending the State of the Union address tonight with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Posted on 21 January 2012
NATO officials are looking at technical failure in the crash, as the Taliban claims the helicopter was shot down.
Posted on 20 January 2012
The entire thrust of U.S. strategy to train Afghans to the point where they can take over is threatened by a growing distrust on both sides.
Posted on 19 January 2012
The “health” of the force isn’t what it should be, but the Army insists it will get better.
Posted on 18 January 2012
About 6,500 jobs in the mid-Atlantic region were up for grabs at a massive VA-sponsored job fair in the nation’s capital that included firms ranging from Microsoft, Citibank and Coca Cola to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted on 18 January 2012
There were 3,191 reports of sexual abuse in the military last year, but Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that number “is closer to 19,000 because of underreporting by victims who fear retribution.”
Posted on 12 January 2012
Deplorable, disgraceful, disgusting, just plain stupid. Those were just some of the choice words officials at the Pentagon offered up after seeing a video that shows U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban in Afghanistan.
Posted on 08 January 2012
There are many reasons women become suicide bombers – but there’s only one reason they’re so successful at it and that’s because counter-terrorism officials still treat women differently when it comes to violence.
Posted on 06 January 2012
After more than a month in captivity, the fishermen thanked the U.S. sailors profusely. But the official reaction from Iran was less than enthusiastic.
Posted on 06 January 2012
In an editorial in state-run media, China called President Barack Obama’s new military strategy “a retreat” and warned the U.S. military not to be “a bull in a china shop.”
Posted on 04 January 2012
The story of the year 2011 in the service — told through the lens of U.S. military photographers.
Posted on 04 January 2012
U.S. troops may have left Iraq, but they still have a way to keep track of millions of Iraqis through the biometric data they collected during the war.
SUPPORTING THE TROOPS
Posted on 24 January 2012
It’s called Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, a once-controversial method for treating post-traumatic stress. Now it’s become an effective way to help vets deal with the aftermath of war.
WARS PAST
Posted on 23 January 2012
The remains of the U.S. sailors have rested in what has become known as the Old Protestant Cemetery of Tripoli. Now there’s a dustup between descendants of the sailors, who want the remains repatriated, and the Navy, which argues against disturbing the graves.
ANALYSIS
Posted on 17 January 2012
Sure, war is hell, but the Marines accused of videotaping themselves while urinating on dead Taliban enemy fighters in Afghanistan have tarnished all veterans.
SOUND OFF
Posted on 17 January 2012
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, wants the word “disorder” removed from PTSD diagnoses for combat veterans. What do you think?
THE FALLEN
Posted on 10 January 2012
Their fight is against a sinister and deadly device, and eight fell victim in the first week of January.
INTELLIGENCE
Posted on 03 January 2012
U.S. troops have pulled out of Iraq. Now American investors are moving in.
DOSSIER
Posted on 01 January 2012
His skill with a camera worked magic for Robert Ford in his long career as a Defense Department photographer. Now if only he could’ve gotten Bob Gates to smile.
AREA OF OPERATION
Posted on 28 December 2011
Iran is bragging about how easy it would be to close the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. Navy gears up to block any attempt to shut down the vital passageway for the world’s oil shipments.
MEDAL OF HONOR
Posted on 15 December 2011
The White House and the Marine Corps pushed back against a published report’s charge that accounts of then-Cpl. Dakota Meyer’s undisputed bravery were embellished needlessly to boost his chances of meriting the Medal of Honor.
BE MY GUEST
Posted on 10 November 2011
Those without ties to the military don’t seem to understand what it is that we dependents do, writes Army wife Rebekah Sanderlin.
10TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPT. 11
Posted on 10 September 2011
On Sept. 11, 2001, Ralph Vitiello was a New York City firefighter and also served in the Marine Corps Reserves. He reflects on what he lost in the rubble, and on the battlefield.