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The annual defense autho­riza­tion bill offers a chance to end wars and pro­grams that are not worth their price. Every year, mem­bers of the con­gres­sion­al armed ser­vices com­mit­tees go [...]

Other coun­tries’ expe­ri­ence with trac­ing apps helps explain why. Two public health mea­sures – test­ing, to iden­ti­fy those infect­ed, and con­tact trac­ing, to iden­ti­fy those who may have [...]

I’m a second-gen­er­a­tion Black activist, and I’m tired of being spied on by the police. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. Rayshard Brooks. Oluwatoyin [...]

For new recruits at the Coast Guard Academy, “There will be no hair­cuts, no drilling, no run­ning as a group from place to place,” AP reports this morn­ing from New London, Conn. “They [...]

A terror group affil­i­at­ed with the Islamic State has been step­ping up tac­tics and claim­ing bigger tar­gets. An Islamist terror group in Mozambique is stag­ing increas­ing­ly [...]

Defense CEOs have been look­ing for silver lin­ings in a year when “work from home” has become the norm for many. Tom Arseneault, who in April became pres­i­dent and CEO of BAE Systems, [...]

Moscow’s strate­gic cal­cu­lus is much harder to parse. In the week since it became public that the United States had evi­dence Russia was offer­ing boun­ties to Taliban-linked mil­i­tants to [...]

The “Gang of Eight” law­mak­ers will get a clas­si­fied brief­ing today from White House offi­cials on that alleged Russian bounty on American troops in Afghanistan, admin­is­tra­tion [...]

Part 4: From the size of the US mil­i­tary to out­dat­ed ‘legacy’ weapons, experts say some­thing has to give. Defense spend­ing is likely to decline or at least flat-line in the coming years, [...]