Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Obama administration is still deciding what to do about a planned missile defense system in Europe.
Up in Tazewell, Wanda Bray slings a mean bowl of chili. Quite literally. Claiborne County Sheriff's Capt. David Honeycutt said Bray was confronted by men who broke into her home Tuesday night and she fought back by throwing what was described as "household objects" at them, including a bowl of homemade chili.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is defending his plans to trim more than a billion dollars from the planned system to build a broad missile shield for the U.S. and its allies.
China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday denied spying accusations made in a court case against a U.S. Defense Department official, accusing Washington of clinging to a "Cold War mentality."
Lower oil prices are threatening Iraq's efforts to build a military capable of defending the country, raising the possibility that the Iraqis will need substantial U.S. help for years after the Americans leave by 2012.
A Defense Department official was charged Wednesday with conspiring to give U.S. defense secrets to an agent for the Chinese government under the mistaken impression that the agent was working for Taiwan.
The Pentagon's proposed $534 billion budget calls for more spending on projects like Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 fighter jet, a naval destroyer built by Bath Iron Works and Sikorsky's Black Hawk helicopters.
President Barack Obama's proposed defense budget includes $130 billion for the nation's two wars, a figure that may not be enough.
A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime spending was told of numerous deficiencies in the arrangement that has paid KBR Inc. nearly $32 billion since 2001.
In 1969, an aeronautical engineer at North American Rockwell discovered a discrepancy in his paycheck: Every hour, he was being overpaid by roughly 2 cents, or one-third of 1 percent of his pay.
Coach Mike Brown stresses one word when he describes the biggest difference he sees in this version of his Cleveland Cavaliers when compared to earlier versions.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak hopes to buy a U.S. missile defense system to protect Israeli towns from short-range rockets and mortar fire, defense officials said Tuesday.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates is recommending a broad overhaul of military spending that would start almost immediately and slash giant weapons programs and the private sector jobs that go with them.
The end of a fighter jet built for the Cold War and cancellation of a new fleet of presidential helicopters sparked concerns of job cuts at Lockheed Martin Corp. and its partners — but did not appear to shake Wall Street's confidence in defense stocks.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday recommended halting production of the F-22 fighter jet and scrapping a new helicopter for the president as he outlined deep cuts to many of the military's biggest weapons programs.
Israel has successfully tested a high-tech system designed to protect civilians from rocket attacks by militant groups in Gaza and south Lebanon, the Defense Ministry said.
President Barack Obama says he can save money on defense and veterans programs by targeting the way the military buys its equipment. He says the country can remain safe and make sure veterans have the services they deserve.
Missile defense will be at the center of a new set of security talks between Washington and Moscow and could become "a positive political tool" rather than an impediment to better U.S.-Russian relations, a leading Senate Democrat said Monday.
The military says its ground-based mobile missile defense system has successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile during a test in Hawaii.
Claiming O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, the brother of the football star's former girlfriend is soliciting money to appeal Simpson's conviction and prison sentence on kidnapping and armed robbery charges.
Costs are likely to keep growing for two of the Pentagon's biggest weapons programs as the military pushes to field fighter jets and high tech Army units even before fully proving the technology, according to Government Accountability Office reports released Thursday.
A man accused of driving drunk said Pennsylvania courts have no jurisdiction over him because he's his own country. After seeing the paperwork that 44-year-old Scott Allan Witmer filed with the court claiming sovereignty, a Northampton County judge said Tuesday he cannot be released from jail until he gets a mental exam.
President Barack Obama and Congress are facing several years of painful trade-offs on national defense — a debate that in many cases will boil down to manpower vs. weapons.
If the Obama administration intends to give up missile defense in Europe as part of a security deal with Russia, as its behind-the-scenes maneuvering seems to suggest, then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is driving a hard bargain.
For the second time in three years, North Korea has tested a nuclear device, to the great consternation and teeth-gashing of just about everybody.
Richard Perle, former assistant to the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee during the Reagan administration in a briefing about Obama's first 100 days in office.
"Israel has overtaken Russia as the main defense supplier to India after breaking the $1 billion mark in new contracts signed annually over the past two years. According to news reports, Russia had averaged sales of $875 million annually to India for the past 40 years.
Obama! Hey Obama. Time out. What are you doing out there. You keep hogging the ball and you're missing all of your shots. You've got Cheney fouling you all over the place and you're running around like you don't know how to run defense.
For the U.S. Military, it's an uncertain time. With the rise of drones, the military's top leaders are wondering just how long manned aviation will reign supreme. And as word about revolutionary change filters down the ranks, it's causing turbulence.
President George W. Bush was famous for proclaiming the promotion of democracy a central focus of American foreign policy. He was not alone in this rhetoric. Most American presidents since Woodrow Wilson have made similar statements.
DO we as Americans want to Buy GM Cars produced in China? Do we want to maintain our ability to design, engineer,and manufacture cars?Do we want to maintain our ability to defend our country?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the genera Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish th …
In the very lowest reaches of organized English soccer, in the bottom division of the amateur Crawley and District Football League, there is a team whose name sets it apart from its rivals.
Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article on the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of Bush-era interrogation techniques.
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited southern Afghanistan late last week not only to assess the American war effort, but also to showcase the kind of conflict he thinks the military must prepare to fight in the years ahead.
The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defense efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programs aimed at destroying enemy missiles very soon after they take off. More Articles
This article illustrates the dilemma of political promise that compromises party principles. How does a Democrat, in this case, vote on a piece of legislation that would cut defense spending but also compromise labor issues in their own district?
David Cameron is right to look beyond Trident Britain can remain a nuclear power without this costly white elephant
As the number of flu cases increase and the locations for the infection expand, the uniformed services must defend against the virus weakening its ranks.
The Supreme Court granted a new hearing in federal court for a Tennessee death row inmate who was deprived of key evidence at his trial.
A jumbo jet being chased by a F-16 fighter jets buzzed Lower Manhattan this morning, panicking New Yorkers, many of whom were forced to evacuate their office buildings.
Two white teenagers went on trial Monday in the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in eastern Pennsylvania - a case that prosecutors are describing as a hate crime.
U.S. Navy researchers are asking two U.S.
It really seems to me like this is something the NSA should be taking a lead role in organizing. Developing story...
"The torture chamber is a corporate institution." (from The True Believer by Eric Hoffer, 1951) _________________________________________________________________________________________
Defense Minister Ehud Barak hopes to buy a U.S. missile defense system to protect Israeli towns from short-range rockets and mortar fire, defense officials said Tuesday.
Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Sheldon Brown has asked to be traded.
Betancourt's fielding now matches his hitting My two favorite Mariners blogs, U.S.S. Mariner and Lookout Landing, are both calling for the end of Yuniesky Betancourt's time as the team's starting shortstop.