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Homeland Security Has Spent $430 Million on Radios Its Employees Don’t Know How to Use
DHS has spent $430 million over the past nine years to provide radios tuned to a common, secure channel to 123,000 employees across the country. Problem is, no one …
Mr. President: How Do You Define Precise?
Drones. There is the rage and fury. The cries of revenge. The talk of honor and family.
Forget Petraeus: The Real Scandal Is Generals’ Corrupt Weapons Procurement
Ill-conceived weapons continue to suck taxpayer dollars - the majority of the discretionary portion of the federal budget, in fact.
First World War: Same Protests of Futility, Folly Heard Today
Voices of some veterans of WWI eerily echo plaints of futility and folly we hear from today's protesters
Beyond Bayonets and Battleships: Space Warfare and the Future of US Global Power
Over the past four years the Obama administration has presided over a technological revolution in defense planning, moving the nation's defenses to cyberwarfare and the full-scale weaponization of space.
Now What? Think Campaigning Is Hard? Try Governance
WIth the close of election season, the Solutions column returns to the business of identifying ways to rein in defense spending.
Netanyahu’s 2010 Order Was Not a Move to War on Iran
Contrary to rumors that Israeli Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered attacks on Iranian nuclear sites in 2010, it was revealed that Israel had no realistic military option …
Obama’s or Romney’s Foreign Policy: Does it Matter Who Wins?
It remains unclear where Mitt Romney really stands on foreign policy and if the election could truly impact US international relations.
The Cost of War: An Interview With Hawaii Congressional Candidate and Veteran Tulsi Gabbard
The former Honolulu city councilwoman, state legislator and combat veteran shares her views on Afghanistan, Iran, drones and military spending.
Anti-Drone Protest Shuts Down Hancock Air Base, 17 Arrested, 13 Held in Jail
Forty concerned citizens created a blockade outside of the Hancock Air National Guard Base in Syracuse in order to protest drone warfare across the seas. Many were arrested.