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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spoken out against US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, calling her a "war hawk with bad judgment" who gets an "emotional rush out of killing people."
Genome editing is a weapon of mass destruction.
Thirteen years ago my life changed forever. Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush's cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003.
The United States welcomes the readiness of Saudi Arabia to deploy ground troops to fight the Islamic State, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a briefing on Friday
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal
Wants More Money for Overseas Contingency Operations
The Pentagon is considering military action in Libya to counter the growing threat of ISIS, ramping up speculation that the administration could soon open up a third front against the terror group.
Pentagon looking at 'military options' to stop Islamic State from gaining more ground, four years after US air campaign helped topple Libyan dictator Gaddafi
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is facing an open revolt in his own ranks.
-The Endless Failure To Train And Equip The Iraqi And Afghan Military Forces
A top Defense Department official and the federal watchdog charged with overseeing U.S. spending in Afghanistan clashed on Wednesday about a now-defunct Pentagon task force that spent $43 million to build a natural gas station in that country, among
Four years after giving up on laser-equipped 747, military chiefs turn attention to lightweight lasers and UAVs that can stay aloft for days
The Air Force spent a lot of time trying to mothball the A-10 Thunderbolt II over the past few years. After realizing there is no reliable close-air support (CAS) alternative to the airframe, however, Congress fought the Air Force at nearly every tur
The Pentagon is considering retroactively demoting retired Gen. David Petraeus after he admitted to giving classified information to his biographer and mistress while he was still in uniform, three people with knowledge of the matter told The Daily B
The Philistinism of American Arms Part Two by Bill Buppert
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Vietnam People's Navy -- a wing of the communist party -- is now cleared by the White House to cruise the seas with American guns.
While President Obama was tearing up to support his call for gun control, the U.S. military-industrial complex was celebrating its continued leadership in the sale of weaponry to foreign regimes.
Publisher's Note: Several readers have asked me to expand on my post I made at WRSA on 5 January 2016 regarding the absolute inability for the US (and Western countries) to conduct savvy analysis and do any intellectual heavy lifting in the prosecu
The global aerospace and defense industry is out of its doldrums. According to a new report by the accounting firm Deloitte, "the resurgence of global security threats" promises a lucrative "rebound" in defense spending.
When Americans think about nuclear weapons, they comfort themselves with the thought that these weapons' vast destruction of human life has not taken place since 1945 - at least not yet.
Nuclear dangers are growing
Wants to Present War as Having More Concrete Strategy
Wants to Present War as Having More Concrete Strategy
We have long editorialized at VT that the Western NeoCon plans to create a new East-West threat competition to divert major expenditures into certain industries under the guise of "defending our interests" was nothing more than an international c
Rights Groups Urge Congress to Monitor Targeting Decisions
White House Tries to Spin 'Care' Being Taken in Existing Strikes
Though the U.S. government denies that it runs an empire, it maintains a bristling global network of military bases unprecedented in world history, including some where the population strenuously protests the presence, as retired Col. Ann Wright note
I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one. - President Theodore Roosevelt
A US military ground operation began and ended without much fanfare earlier this week in Libya, the Pentagon admitted today, in a shockingly bungling effort to secretly establish a presence of US special forces in the country.
Concentration of forces is the most basic law of military science. Victory on the battlefield is won by amassing as many troops as possible at the key point of attack, or 'schwerpunkt,' as it's known in German.
