While relations between Russia and the US may finally be on the mend following a phone call between Putin and Trump, in which the Russian leader expressed hope for a reset and renormalization of the current "unsatisfactory" bilateral relations betwee
As the former deputy legal director of the ACLU, Jameel Jaffer made many arguments challenging the Obama administration's drone program over the years, both in and out of court.
The White House announced last week that it was shifting its approach on Syria. From now on it would target al-Qaeda in Syria instead of backing them to overthrow Assad.
In a disturbing indication of how difficult it would be to bring military spending in line with actual threats overseas, House Armed Services Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R – TX) told President Obama last week that his war funding request of $11.6
US military scientists have used electrical brain stimulators to enhance mental skills of staff, in research that aims to boost the performance of air crews, drone operators and others in the armed forces' most demanding roles.
The Pentagon's five year plan has been planted (or in Pentagon-speak, "front loaded") with the seed money for a top-to-bottom modernization of our nuclear forces
Technocrats in Russia are building robotic killing machines that will ultimately use AI and swarm technology to overwhelm an enemy. The robot arms race is rapidly accelerating between Russia, China and the U.S. ? TN Editor
Despite its recent economic troubles, the People's Republic of China is likely to be the only peer level competitor to the United States over the next fifty years. While a conflict is unlikely--a Third World War is in nobody's interests--the Un
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The Pentagon has secretly expanded its global network of drone bases to North Africa, deploying unmanned aircraft and U.S. military personnel to a facility in Tunisia to conduct spy missions in neighboring Libya.
Each month, she writes "blood money" on the $100 check -- the token amount the McLains pay on the $30,000 debt they deny owing -- that she sends to the Pentagon. "Shame on you. Extortion," she writes on the envelope.
Sometimes I wonder if I live in an alternative universe. The third dimension or the twilight zone. Do women in America honestly think it is a sign of "equality" to be forced to register for a military draft? In a recent interview with Greta Van S
The veneration of military forces in American culture can be explained in part as appreciation for the forces of coercion that enabled settlers to homestead disputed territories and lands. The military has been a necessary means of expansion and Mani
Shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon hired Bell Pottinger, a London-based PR agency. The PR firm was tasked with promoting what the Pentagon called "democratic elections" in Iraq, ultimately earning over a hundred million dollars