Pentagon

Bush is gone, but Halliburton rolls on

Dick Cheney's former company spun off KBR in 2007 -- yet paid a huge fine for the military contractor 3 months ago.

By Pratap Chatterjee Jun 3, 2009

Digging in for the long haul in Afghanistan

The Pentagon's building boom in Afghanistan indicates a long war ahead

By Nick Turse November 9, 2009
Is the end of "don't ask, don't tell"? in sight?

Even the Pentagon appears to be losing interest in the controversial policy, and Harry Reid wants action

By Gabriel Winant October 1, 2009
Columbine questions we still haven't answered

Isn't violence a predictable byproduct of our winner-take-all economy?

By David Sirota April 18, 2009
SaladShooters and real bullets

Many makers of familiar products used to make weapons for the U.S. military. In tough times, the practice could be making a comeback.

By Nick Turse December 18, 2008

Pentagon will allow photos of war dead

The Obama administration will reverse its predecessor's policy and permit the media to photograph soldiers' coffins as they arrive in the U.S.

By Alex Koppelman February 26, 2009
Not everything is peachy at Gates' Pentagon

The DOD has redefined combat-related disabilities, and seriously wounded vets are losing benefits.

By Gabriel Winant November 25, 2008
Awaiting Obama's top lieutenants

Will it be Chuck Hagel, or even Hillary Clinton, for secretary of state? Will Bob Gates stay at the Pentagon? Obama's national security team remains mostly top secret.

By Walter Shapiro November 14, 2008
Confessions of a former Guantánamo prosecutor

The inside story of a military lawyer who discovered stunning injustice at the heart of the Bush administration's military commissions.

By Stacy Sullivan October 23, 2008
In the military we trust

Progressives who want to disarm U.S. militarism must first understand the nation's faith in the military -- one of our least elitist, most diverse institutions.

By William J. Astore February 11, 2008
America's trinity of terrorism

The network of U.S.-sponsored terrorism now on global display relies on death squads, disappearances and torture.

By Greg Grandin December 14, 2007
Feeding off the Pentagon

How did a former Bush official win an $800 million Department of Defense contract for his healthcare firm? That's what government watchdogs want to know.

By Mark Benjamin December 4, 2007
Guns, not roses, for Iraq

The U.S. is selling billions in weapons to Iraq. Is the Pentagon's plan making the country secure or arming it to the teeth for civil war?

By Mark Benjamin September 18, 2007
Don't believe the surge hype

The Petraeus road show will roll into Washington with dubious claims that troop increases have reduced violence.

By Joe Conason September 7, 2007
Bush's new friends: The Sunnis

As plans to stabilize Iraqi politics go nowhere fast, experts warn that the latest U.S. tactics could lead to greater civil war.

By Mark Benjamin September 5, 2007
U.S. military routinely hacks into Chinese networks

Why wasn't that the headline on a "scoop" detailing Chinese infiltration of Pentagon computers?

By Andrew Leonard September 4, 2007
Bush's non-exit exit strategy

Not only is the "surge" not working, it's destabilizing Iraq. Yet military leaders say troops should stay for the long term.

By Joe Conason August 3, 2007
Operation Iraq betrayal

In the absence of anything remotely resembling victory in Iraq, Bush and Cheney play the blame game -- including in a new, authorized biography of the vice president.

By Sidney Blumenthal July 26, 2007
Hillary strikes back

After being dressed down by the Pentagon, Clinton leads a call for hearings on redeployment.

By Julia Dahl July 23, 2007
Shot across the bow

Telling Mrs. Clinton to mind her business.

By Digby July 19, 2007
One U.S. soldier who must be counted

Veterans of the Iraq war, including heroic Army Cpl. Frank Sandoval, are dying here in America too.

By L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr. June 22, 2007
A whole new kind of missile defense test failure

This time, they couldn't even get the target "missile" to launch correctly.

By Alex Koppelman May 25, 2007
George Tenet cashes in on Iraq

The former CIA chief is earning big money from corporations profiting off the war -- a fact not mentioned in his combative new book or heard on his publicity blitz.

By Tim Shorrock May 7, 2007
The Pentagon's chronic neglect of Iraq vets

Military officials knew long ago about the failure to take care of America's war wounded at the beleaguered Walter Reed hospital.

By Mark Benjamin April 25, 2007