Pentagon

Halliburton headquarters 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Injured troops shipped back into battle

    Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.
    By Mark Benjamin April 9, 2007

  • The long-term wounds of Walter Reed

    Despite military officials' "surprise" at recent coverage, Salon exposed inadequate care and an overwhelmed system unfriendly to vets beginning two years ago.
    By Mark Benjamin February 23, 2007

  • The Pentagon's not-so-little secret

    As the president and Republicans continue to hype the surge -- and stifle debate about it -- Bush's own war planners are preparing for failure in Iraq.
    By Sidney Blumenthal February 8, 2007
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