Military

Military

Self-guided Unmanned Navy Patrol Boats Make Debut

OK, drone boats seem pretty cool.

Reason Staff | 10.5.2014 1:00 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: 'Boots on the Ground'

Matt Welch | 9.26.2014 5:59 PM

Constitution

U.S. Air Force Violates Constitution by Requiring Enlistees to Swear 'So Help Me God'

Ronald Bailey | 9.17.2014 11:02 AM

ISIS

US Launches Expanded Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq

It begins.

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 8:25 PM

Crony Capitalism

New Balance Lobbies to Become the Military's Official Sneaker Supplier

Lucian McMahon | 9.8.2014 4:55 PM

Politics

America's Broken Immigration System is Kneecapping the Military

Shikha Dalmia | 9.4.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia on How Obama Can Help Immigrants and the Military in One Move

Reason Staff | 9.4.2014 10:00 AM

Iraq

Obama Authorizes Additional Troops to Iraq

350 military to protect personnel in Baghdad

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 9:22 PM

Politics

America's Broken Immigration System is Crippling the Military Too

Shikha Dalmia | 8.29.2014 1:26 PM

Charity/Philanthropy

DoD Worries People Might Think They Endorse Dumping Ice Water on Self for Charity

Scott Shackford | 8.21.2014 4:05 PM

Politics

Make Lunch, Not War

Are one in four Americans really too fat to fight? The figure appears to be inflated.

Baylen Linnekin | 8.16.2014 8:00 AM

Politics

The Weird Wide Web: ISIS Supporters Tweet About Robin Williams' Death

Zenon Evans | 8.13.2014 11:00 AM

Iraq

US: Let's Give the New Iraqi Government Weapons Faster!

To fight ISIS

Reason Staff | 8.12.2014 5:55 PM

Iraq

Second Wave of US Airstrikes Hits Iraq

Again against Islamic State

Reason Staff | 8.8.2014 4:10 PM

Afghanistan

Army Finally Hearing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Side of the Story

Now that everybody has moved on to the next outrage.

Reason Staff | 8.6.2014 3:15 PM

Politics

The Case for Just War Theory

It's time for our foreign policy to return to first principles.

A. Barton Hinkle | 7.28.2014 12:00 PM

Reasontv

Is the US Abandoning Afghan Interpreters to Certain Death?

Amanda Winkler | 7.26.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

The U.S. Military Is Trying to Build an "Iron Man Suit." It's Not Going Well.

Brittany Morrisey | 7.10.2014 12:43 PM

Politics

Errol Morris on Donald Rumsfeld's "Gobbledygook" and the Twisted Logic that Led to Operation Iraqi Freedom

Jim Epstein | 6.28.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

Bringing the Troops Home is Always Easier Said Than Done

Jason Keisling and Nick Gillespie | 6.25.2014 2:30 PM

Politics

"Every single VA senior executive received an evaluation of 'fully successful' or better over a 4-year period."

Nick Gillespie | 6.25.2014 8:40 AM

Policy

Against Another Pointless War

Searching the world for monsters to destroy will only end up destroying us.

Andrew Napolitano | 6.19.2014 7:00 AM

Iraq

Iraq Is a Terrible Place to Succumb to Sunken Costs Fallacy

Scott Shackford | 6.16.2014 12:06 PM

Veterans

The Latest on VA Delay Scandal: 18 Vets Died in Phoenix Awaiting Visits; Feds Probe Retaliation Against Dozens of Whistleblowers

Scott Shackford | 6.6.2014 4:03 PM

Policy

It Should Have Been Easier for Bowe Bergdahl to Quit the Military

J.D. Tuccille | 6.5.2014 4:06 PM

Politics

Did White House Keep Taliban Trade a Secret Because Congress Opposed It?

Officials say Bergdahl too fragile to be questioned.

Scott Shackford | 6.3.2014 3:30 PM

Afghanistan

Bowe Bergdahl: What the Left, Right, and Taliban Have To Say

Zenon Evans | 6.2.2014 5:30 PM

Politics

Is Ransomed U.S. Soldier Bowe Bergdahl a Deserter? UPDATED: Was Release of Taliban Prisoners Illegal?

Nick Gillespie | 6.2.2014 9:09 AM

Civil Liberties

Air Force Captain Assaulted for Not Knowing His Neighbor

Tracy Oppenheimer | 6.1.2014 1:00 PM

Policy

Iran Spies on U.S. Officials By Facebook Friending Them

Zenon Evans | 5.30.2014 12:05 PM

Interventionism

Here's Something Huge That Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Doesn't Know About History

In foreign policy the danger is intervention, not 'isolation'

Sheldon Richman | 5.29.2014 3:00 PM

Policy

Trouble 'Adjusting' to Sexual Assault May Be Getting U.S. Military Members Booted Without VA Benefits

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.28.2014 11:40 AM

Politics

Obama 'Welcomes Debate on Terror' To Avoid Debate on Terror

One year after promising dialogue, his administration is silent.

Gene Healy | 5.27.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

U.S. Sends Warship to Black Sea, Says Russia Hasn't Pulled Troops Yet

Zenon Evans | 5.21.2014 1:50 PM

Policy

Tearful Terminator? Military Seeks Killer Robots With Moral Judgment

J.D. Tuccille | 5.14.2014 12:45 PM

Politics

'It's kind of like arresting someone for drinking and driving, but they're drinking O'Doul's'

Matt Welch | 5.13.2014 12:59 PM

Politics

Rand Paul Should Highlight the Economic Case For Non-Interventionism

An interventionist foreign policy is not only often unwise, it's expensive

Matthew Feeney | 5.9.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Veterans Affairs Drops Ball on 1.5 MILLION Cases!

Nick Gillespie | 5.1.2014 12:54 PM

Politics

NATO: US Troops Could Be Deployed to Eastern Europe

Zenon Evans | 4.10.2014 11:45 AM

Policy

The U.S. Army's Racially Biased Hairstyle Guidelines

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.4.2014 12:38 PM

Gun Control

Second Fort Hood Shooting Renews Same Debates over Security, Gun Control, Mental Health

Here we go again

Ed Krayewski | 4.3.2014 10:04 AM

Politics

Pentagon: Wars Come and Go but War FUNDING Should Be Forever!

Nick Gillespie | 3.28.2014 8:47 AM

Politics

Biden Says US is Considering Military Exercises in the Baltics

Matthew Feeney | 3.18.2014 3:02 PM

Policy

General Says He Will Need More Ships If We Expect Him to Win the War on Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2014 1:29 PM

Politics

The Death of the Constitutional Militia and the Rise of the Military-Police State

Nick Gillespie | 3.10.2014 8:49 AM

Policy

Senate Blocks Overhaul of Military Rape Prosecution Rules

Will stay under the control of military chain of command

Reason Staff | 3.6.2014 2:47 PM