Defense Secretary Leon Panetta faced criticism during testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee over the failure to get Iraqis to agree to an extended U.S. military presence in the country. U.S. pressure to have Iraq allow an extension of U.S. troop...
The Pentagon's plan to sell 5,000 bunker-buster bombs to the United Arab Emirates does conform to the Obama administration's strategy to strengthen military ties with allies in the Persian Gulf, but the deal may have been propelled for other reasons. The planned sale...
The United States has had extensive covert activities going on in Somalia since 2003, primarily through the CIA and elite forces. Supposedly aimed at subverting warlords with connections to al Qaeda, the interventions soon got deeper. The details of the history of...
The U.S. will launch "offensive cyber operations" in response to hostile cyber acts directed at the U.S. government, economy, or military," according to a new report by the Pentagon. The new report remains consistent with previous iterations of Pentagon policy which...
The United States has removed Predator drones from Iraq and deployed them to Turkey in support of Ankara's fight against Kurdish rebels. In one aspect of the precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, equipment like drones are being freed up for use in other countries in the...
Authorities in Bahrain claim they have arrested an Iran-backed terror cell that was planning to attack Bahraini and Saudi government targets and a bridge that connects both countries. Bahraini leaders have long sought to characterize the pro-democracy uprising as an...
Accused of giving classified material to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning has now been in pre-trial confinement for 560 days. He has been exposed to harsh conditions while in custody, including solitary confinement and forced nudity. Rights groups like Amnesty International...
Author Chuck Pfarrer has been getting attention for his revisionist account of the operation to kill Osama bin Laden in his new book SEAL Target Geronimo. But Pfarrer makes ludicrous claims about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction. Kris Alexander, a...
U.S. troops are on their way to Nigeria to help fight Boko Haram, in yet another newfangled military intervention into Africa. Boko Haram are an Islamic terrorist group, but its not clear what danger they've ever presented to America. Nevertheless, this new war is not...
Despite President Obama's insincere, lackluster calls for a nuclear weapons free world, the United States still has more than 5,000 atomic warheads scattered around the country or on submarines around the world. The Cold War ended more than two decades ago and no...
