Army Chief Gen. George Casey Recommends Dropping The Plan For Fighting Two MCOs [Major Combat Operations]

Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey testifies to the House Armed Services Committee on Army strategic initiatives Sept. 26 on Capitol Hill...

For All The Debate About Interrogation, Little Research Exists

File:Buchenwald Eisenhower torture demonstration. Wikimedia From McClatchy: WASHINGTON — The heated debate in recent weeks about harsh inter...

White House Not Moving on DADT (Don't Ask Don't Tell)

From The Advocate: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked twice during Thursday's press briefing about the military's ...

G8 Wants Closer Cooperation To Fight Terrorism, Piracy

From Yahoo News/AFP: ROME (AFP) – Fighting the global terrorism threat as well as the scourge of piracy calls for stronger cooperation among...

What Is Happening In Iran -- News Updates For June 1, 2009

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his opponents were serving the interests of the West. Hasan Sarbakhshian / Associated Press Iran Presiden...

Extra U.S. Troops In Afghanistan By Mid-July

A U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit looks through his gun sights during a patrol in the town of Garmser in Helmand Provinc...

Cyber War/Security News Updates -- May 31, 2009

Terry Gillette, left, and Scott Chase run a Raytheon unit that finds flaws in Pentagon computers. Gregg Matthews for The New York Times Cont...

‘Top Gun’ Takes On Taliban Upside Down

Photo: Simon Rawlins says he has come close to death at least twice during his 193 missions From Times Online: The navy’s leading pilot in ...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 31, 2009

Meet The New, Government-Owned GM -- Forbes Bankruptcy will force lots of changes on the automaker, putting bureaucrats in the driver's ...

World News Briefs -- May 31, 2009

A Pakistani Soldier On Patrol In The Swat Valley's Main Town Of Mingora Photo: EPA Pakistan Makes Progress In Battle To Defeat Taliban ...

Leaders Live In Luxury While North Koreans Starve To Pay For Nuclear Bomb

North Korea Uncovered pin point Kim Jong Il's manicured residence and swimming pool in an area reserved for North Korea's ruling eli...

Amateurs Use Google Earth To Uncover Kim’s Sinister Secrets

Camp 16: Fences and boundaries match accounts by escaped prisoners From Times Online: FOR all the billions of dollars worth of surveillance ...

U.S. Vows To Keep Using 'State Secrets' Defense

From CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration has informed a federal judge it will continue to invoke the "state secrets...

Predator Drones Could Face Legal Challenges From Human Rights Advocates

Photo from The New Republic From FOX News: Human rights activists are turning their attention to the drone program in part because they say ...

A Korean Invasion Blindsides The U.S. Army -- But In A Good Way

A Korean man signing up at an Army recruitment office in Los Angeles. Miriam Jordan/The Wall Street Journal From The Wall Street Journal: Im...

Man Who Tracked Che For CIA Awarded $1 Billion In Lawsuit

From McClatchy News: MIAMI — In what may be the largest civil judgment ever against the Cuban government, a Miami-Dade judge on Friday award...

Likely Hizbollah Electoral Victory In Lebanon Raises Prospect Of New Tensions With Israel

Lebanese Hizbollah women with the national and Hizbollah flags draped about their shoulders walk in Beirut's southern suburbs Photo: R...

North Korea News Updates -- May 31, 2009

A missile-firing drill in an undisclosed location in North Korea. Photograph: KCNA/KCNA/AFP/Getty Images Gates, Allies Discuss Response to N...

Weekend Update: Bathroom Cops, Gun Disablers and Sonia Sotomayor

I'd like to revisit three stories we've discussed recently and share some new information and observations. [ More ] Today's Gun...

This Day in History: May 31

General Knox who has deservedly acquired the character of One of the most valuable Officers in the service, and who combating almost innume...

Nigeria's Unrest In The Oil Rich Delta Region Continues

Fighters with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) raise their rifles in celebration after an operation against the N...

Pakistan Civil War News Updates -- May 31, 2009

Taliban rebels in Pakistan are taking their war to the cities, honing terror tactics to maximise civilian carnage after suffering heavy loss...

Administration Blocks Helicopters For Israel Due To Civilian Casualties In Gaza

AH64-D Apache Longbow during flight testing at Boeing testing ground. DOD photo by : MSGT LANCE CHEUNG, USAF From World Tribune: WASHINGTON ...

Camp Lejeune Vets Suffer From Drinking Water Contamination

A sign at Camp Lejeune, N.C., warns about treatment of the underground plume of TCE, or trichloroethylene, on the base. From St. Petersburg ...

Cirsis On The Korean Peninsula -- Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

North Korea’s Nuclear Tests: A Sign Of Things To Come? -- RUSI North Korea’s most recent nuclear testing has provoked international outrage,...

US Lab Debuts Super Laser

A US weapons lab pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star From AFP: SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — A US weapo...

The Kilcullen Doctrine

From Zen Pundit: Dr. John Nagl, president of CNAS, lead author of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, retired lieuten...

To Marines, Day At Beach Means Seizing It

From Sign On San Diego: Cpl. Andrew Mustain joined the Marine Corps a few years ago, drawn partly by its storied heritage of storming beache...

Russian Fighter Jets Worse Than Those Of USA And Europe?

Indian Il-78MKI gassing two Su-30MKIs ( IAF ) From Pravda: The failure of the deal to sell Russian IL-78 fuel tankers to India once again ra...

Robert Gates: The Bureaucrat Unbound

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates greets U.S. military service personnel at Kabul airport following his visit to Forward Operating Base...

Taliban Target Britain On 'Orders' From Al-Qaeda

(7/7 London) From The Telegraph: A Taliban-trained terrorist was part of a cell sent to bomb Britain as revenge for their presence in Afghan...

Lovelorn Iraqi Men Call On A Wartime Skill

When this young woman’s family rejected a neighbor’s marriage proposal, he planted a bomb in front of his own home, hoping to blame them for...

Taliban Recruits Teenage Suicide Bombers For Revenge Attacks

From The Telegraph: Video films made by the Taliban in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley show teenage boys being groomed as suicide bomber...

5 Reasons Why This North Korean Crisis Is No Groundhog's Day -- Commentary And Analysis

A South Korean tourist looks at northern side through binoculars on South Korea's western Yeonpyong Island as Chinese fishing boats gath...

The Nuclear Arms Race Between Pakistan And India

A nuclear-capable missile is displayed during National Day celebrations in Pakistan — APP photo. Pakistan Enhances Second Strike N-Capabilit...

Courageous Exploits Of SAS May Never Be Reported

From Times Online: When the last British combat soldier withdrew from Iraq this week, one of the most fraught campaigns of modern British mi...

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Is Putting His Military Chiefs Into Jail

President Hugo Chávez, left, in 2004 with Gen. Raúl Isaías Baduel, who is now a critic of Mr. Chávez and a prisoner. Juan Barreto/Agence Fra...

Cyber War Games Pit Hackers Vs. Military

U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command. Wikimedia From CBS: Exclusive Look At Air Force Office Tasked With Stopping Criminal, Terrorist ...

Documentary Highlights Success Of Land Warrior System

The US Army exhibited the improved Land Warrior individual soldier combat system on Capitol Hill in Washington. ( US Army photo ) From The U...

Aftermath Of The Sri Lankan Civil War -- News Updates For May 30, 2009

Civilians at a refugee camp outside Vavuniya, in northern Sri Lanka. The camps around this town are woefully overcrowded. David Gray/Associ...

Afghanistan War News Updates -- May 30, 2009

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks to soldiers deployed to Field Operating Base Ramrod, Afghanistan, during a recent trip to south...