How the ‘self licking ice cream cone,’ prolonged the 20-year war
Institutional interests, including military budgets and self-preservation, will drive bad national security decisions every time.
Institutional interests, including military budgets and self-preservation, will drive bad national security decisions every time.
As Elizabeth Holmes goes to trial, are we surprised that her fraud and corruption reached the top ranks of the Pentagon?
He was a colleague and a principled truth-teller during an era of war, hubris, and Beltway banditry.
Brilliant, sophisticated, and absolutely dogged in his criticism of the Pentagon ‘self-licking ice cream cone,’ his death leaves a gaping hole.
A new GAO report finds gaping holes in oversight in the military’s unwieldy private security contractor biz.
Panicking over this development would just encourage Beijing to increase its arsenal more than it already is.
Trump’s instincts to withdraw them from the country were right. Now the Pentagon seems to be reverting back to old, failed strategies.
Despite cuts, the Army wants nearly $1B to upgrade a vehicle that literally put our soldiers in harm’s way. But it’s a big boon for the contractor.
A recent DOD report shows how incomplete accounting leaves victims with no recourse to redress.
The pressure on Biden is increasing as the Taliban take more territory by the day, and the Pentagon continues to send mixed signals.
But questions remain about private security contractors and the ongoing debate over counterterrorism capabilities.
Biden’s pick for secretary worked in Pentagon acquisitions before his most recent gigs consulting for top defense contractors.
According to this exhaustive reporting, Trump’s thwarted revenge scenario was not what you might think. It just didn’t work.
Their objections to budget cuts have nothing really to do with who is best positioned to fight, but losing out on the spoils.
While millions of Americans have yet to recover, War Incorporated joins pantheon of wealthiest elites profiting during the pandemic.
They formed their own shadow army, some 90,000 in the country at its peak, but their problematic predomination is coming to an end.
This isn’t about seizing islands on the other side of the globe, but keeping territory in the Pentagon bureaucracy.
Biden played this well, he said you can either have new weapons or you can have this old war. In the end, it wasn’t much of a contest.
The U.S. military’s new emphasis on near-peer conflicts will undoubtedly help funnel trillions of dollars into yet more weaponry, including a revamped nuclear arsenal
In 2020, Trump reversed a total ban by Obama. According to a statement today, nothing has changed. Why?
It’s using China to compete hard with the Navy and Air Force for funds and relevance — but without a real strategy.