Defense

Confronting torture

Persian Gulf POWs sue Saddam over torture.

Defense

Time to go

Former Enron executive Thomas E. White has three strikes against him and should call himself out as secretary of the Army.

Defense

Keep the peace

Just because President Clinton did it doesn't mean that peacekeeping is bad.

Defense

Test early, test often

Bad military hardware is getting through the Pentagon's early-warning system.

Defense

Airing it out

The Air Force chief of staff floats some revolutionary ideas.

Defense

Truth be told

The leak about a ministry of truth at the Pentagon was a huge favor for all Americans.

Defense

Rogue elephant's return?

There's a danger that the CIA will interpret President Bush's "go do it" mandate to fight terrorism as an "anything goes" license.

Defense

Pigging out

If he's serious about battling pork, President Bush should veto any overly larded military construction bill.

Defense

More for less

President Bush is proposing a larger Defense budget for a smaller force.

Defense

Letters from the front: The war on terrorism up close

Troops in Afghanistan describe what it's really like to be on the front lines of the battle against terrorism.

Defense

Rent-a-weapons

The Pentagon's plan to lease weapons, instead of buying them, should be scrutinized.

Defense

The engine that could

How one man's dream of a new propulsion system won a huge contract for Lockheed Martin.

Defense

Whole new debate

Lawmakers are struggling to find the middle ground between doing too little and doing too much to protect a democracy that is vulnerable anywhere and everywhere.

Defense

Pentagon pushed to purchase unmanned planes

Defense

Lawmaker laments homeland defense bureaucracy

Defense

Lid is off defense spending in House

News

America enters a new kind of war

New tactics, more money, better intelligence, and a new willingness to suffer casualties-all will be necessary in the military's war on terrorism.