Defense

Obama Administration Says It's In Final Stages of Drafting Plan to Close Guantanamo

Press secretary Josh Earnest also told reporters Wednesday that if a major defense bill included a provision to prevent closing the prison, Obama would veto it.

Defense

Army Chief Nominee Supports Arming Recruiters

Gen. Mark Milley, Obama’s nominee to become Army chief of staff, says measures are being taken to protect recruiters, like the ones targeted in the Chattanooga attack.

Defense

Martin O’Malley’s Linking of Climate Change and ISIS Isn’t As Crazy As You Might Think

Conservatives mocked the Democratic presidential candidate, but there’s evidence of a connection between drought and the Syrian civil war.

Defense

Obama Announces New Loan Protections for Troops

The changes close loopholes in a 2006 law aimed at preventing predatory lenders from taking advantage of service members and their families.

Defense

Closing Guantanamo Tops Havana's To-Do List

The U.S.-Cuba relationship may be thawing, but Congress may be the only one who can melt the iceberg that is the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Defense

The Iran Deal Trips Up Clinton’s Delicate Foreign Policy Dance

The agreement is forcing the Clinton campaign to figure out how to tout her tenure as Obama’s first secretary of state while keeping the president’s mixed national-security record at arm’s length.

Defense

Head Air Marshal to Congress: We've Still Got This

The "last line of defense" in the sky is persevering despite several challenges.

Oversight

Joe Biden's New Mission: Selling the Iran Deal

President Obama has dispatched his favorite Hill ambassador to persuade Democrats to back the nuclear agreement.

Defense

Obama: Argument for Rejecting Iran Deal 'Defies Logic'

The Iran deal debate is hardly over. And the president knows it.

Nextgov

Q&A: The Case for Crowdsourcing War Games

Washington-based consulting firm WikiStrat is polling its a network of 2,000 experts for war game simulations.

Defense

The Defense Department's IED Office Reinvents Itself For a New Era

JIEDDO is now JIDA, with a permanent place in the bureaucracy and license to target more than roadside bombs

Defense

The Stunning ISIS-Related Allegations Against the Son of a Boston Cop

DOJ alleges the 23-year-old was planning an attack in the style of 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Defense

The True Story of the Soviet Engineer Who Became a Spy and Saved the Federal Government $1 Billion

HUMINT remains the hardest, most dangerous, least scientific but also most powerful intelligence discipline of them all.

Management

Defense Reconsidering Total F-35 Buy, Dunford Says

Gen. Joseph Dunford, the nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he’s willing to rethink the acquisition plan for the most expensive weapons program ever.

Defense

FBI Chief: ISIS Is Relying on Encryption to Recruit Americans

“This is not your grandfather’s al-Qaida,” Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Defense

Obama Tells Troops They Won’t Miss a Paycheck

Veto threats, political rhetoric, and government shutdown talk have ratcheted up fear over whether troops will get paid on time.