Writing in The New York Times, U.S. Naval Academy historian Aaron B. O'Connell worries that a paucity of veterans in Congress makes lawmakers apt to mindlessly "support the troops" and oppose cuts in military spending.
Defense Department has it currently classified as workplace violence
Spreading fear about job loses that would result from Obama's defense cuts
Campaigning against cuts to the Pentagon with senior Senators
The carrier currently under construction is over budget, of course
Mitt Romney makes the case for his kind of interventionist foreign policy
Cold comfort for Bradley Manning, though
It would be months before they saw impacts, they believe
Truck design makes them highly resistant to bombs, but military dragged feet on getting them
Has a tendency to cause its pilots to black out
Even the Pentagon doesn't want them anymore
Please don't take away their sweet, delicious pork!
Our pork tastes so much better than their pork
Intended to help prevent possible attacks from North Korea
Good luck figuring it out from the party's recent convention, which offered conflicting views.
Matt Welch & Kennedy preview Reason's brand-new issue
The US military refused to let New Zealand troops in Afghanistan borrow mine-resistant vehicles
An MSNBC host's book on foreign policy leaves out too much of the story of how this mess began.
It's a little rich to hear conservative Republicans treat national security as if it were a federal jobs program
He didn't cut military spending, but he questioned whether the Pentagon needed as much as it said it did. That's controversial?
GOP lawmakers say the White house is leaning on defense contractors to stay mum about likely post-election job cuts
But remember, its sequestration that's the national security risk, not government waste
Why would the Department of Labor ever want to wait till after the election for layoffs to be announced?
NATO's summit this weekend in the Windy City will produce a lot of hot air, but what the aging alliance really needs is a douse in cold water.
