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Authorities investigated a 4th nighttime shooting at a Washington-area military building, the FBI urged the unknown gunman to surrender before someone is hurt. "We appreciate that he is struggling right now," an FBI spokeswoman said. "This guy hasn
An overnight shooting at a vacant Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly this week has been definitively linked to two recent attacks on U.S. military buildings in Northern Virginia.
Computer errors at an Air Force base in Wyoming took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles -- one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile -- offline for an hour. Engineers believe the outage was caused by a hardware failure in a launch control c
The same gun was used to shoot at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Northern Virginia earlier this month, the FBI said. A third military office, a Marine Corps recruiting station was shot at overnight Monday; Marines who wor
The U.S. military said it did not under-report the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war or ignore prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces, rejecting allegations arising from leaked U.S. documents.
Omar Khadr pleaded to 5 charges including murder for throwing a grenade that mortally wounded the soldier during a fierce raid on an al-Qaida compound in Afghanistan in 2002. The now 24-year-old defendant also admitted to planting explosive devices a
The U.S. Army is evaluating full-color flexible displays that can be worn on the wrist.
She was known as "the M&M lady," for decorating her office cubicle with keepsakes of the confection's advertising characters.
A soldier who recorded the terror of last year’s deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood using his cell phone was ordered by an officer to delete both videos. The footage could have been vital evidence at the military hearing to decide if Maj. Nidal Has
Program re-ignites fears that active duty military are being primed to deal with civil unrest in aftermath of economic turmoil
US Officials to Meet With Pakistani Military Over Border Issues
The Guardian has learned that a US special forces soldier who is believed to have accidentally killed Norgrove is likely to face disciplinary action after failing to inform his commanding officers that he had used a grenade until long after the event
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the United States military to stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law that prohibits openly gay men and women from serving. Injunction banning enforcement of the law and ordered the military to immediately “
A soldier's death brings more grief and anger at the folly of young lives being lost in Afghanistan
The futurists at Darpa are asking for algorithms to find and pre-empt anyone planning the next Fort Hood massacre, WikiLeaks document dump or suicide-in-uniform.
A sniper crouches near an open window and zooms in on his target, who sits a half-mile away. He peers through a scope and holds his breath, preparing to squeeze the trigger. But it’s windy outside, and he can't afford a miss. What to do?
Soldiers firing concussion grenades and automatic weapons have rescued Ecuador's president from a hospital where he had been trapped by rebellious police for more than 12 hours. President Rafael Correa appeared on the balcony of the presidential pala
“The Pentagon has been incredibly negligent,” said Peter Leitner, who was a senior strategic trade adviser at the Defense Department from 1986 to 2007. “There are plenty of early warning signs that China will use its leverage over these materials as
Adm. Mike Mullen, the Pentagon's top officer, said Wednesday that the 'kill squad' allegations – that drug use could have been a factor in one unit's decision to allegedly kill Afghans for fun – raises questions about troops' use of hashish in Afghan
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NATO Confirms Apache Helicopters Launched Attacks Against Pakistani Territory
Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.
The nine-day exercise on Ft. Bragg's Sicily Drop Zone this month involved more than 2,000 paratroopers and airmen. Huge Air Force cargo planes dropped not only paratroopers, but also heavy vehicles and artillery pieces. It was the type of large-scale
Scanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens.
Did US soldiers create an Afghan killing club?
Not since the end of the Cold War has the Pentagon spent so much to develop and deploy secret weapons. But now military researchers have turned their attention from mass destruction to a far more precise challenge: finding, tracking, and killing indi
Grappling hooks attached to siphon electricity from low-hanging power lines. Computers mounted onto a commando’s chest plate. Communications gadgets small enough to fit into gear pouches worn around the waist. The Air Force is actually preparing its
In 2007, a list of 264 military service members, civilian employees and contractors for the Department of Defense who had used credit cards or PayPal to purchase access to a child pornography website.
Spc. Alyssa Peterson, a young soldier who committed suicide after refusing to participate in torture. Peterson died on September 15, 2003, one of the first female soldiers to die in Iraq. Her death from a "non-hostile weapons discharge"
Officials will ban alcohol consumption in the Guantanamo media operation center, calling it a "place to conduct business," but a tent with "a large refrigerator, chairs and TV as a social area" will be designated for journalists to store alcohol.
