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From 2000 to 2010, the Defense Department’s health care costs rose from $17.8 billion to $43.5 billion — growing more than twice as fast as economywide medical inflation. As a share of …

TO GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY for attempting to cool an increasingly heated national discussion about war with Iran.

It’s a sign of how things are going that the chairman’s simple declaration on CNN …

What the Pentagon can learn from NASA’s ‘faster, better, cheaper’ approach

The U.S. Army is “the best equipped in the world.” That’s the assessment of the 2010 Army Acquisition Review report, released …

A modern system of measurements would boost effectiveness

“It’s déjà vu all over again” — the clever aphorism from philosopher and baseball legend Yogi Berra — comes to my mind nearly every …

ARMY Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis’ feature article, “Truth, Lies and Afghanistan” [January/February] marks a disturbing trend among officers engaging in what essentially is political discourse in uniform. Leaving aside the intellectual …

TO ERIC HOLDER, for declining to make clear the law surrounding the killing of U.S. citizens.

The U.S. attorney general took a step toward transparency March 5 when he stated plainly that …

Without ground forces, the U.S. cannot counter Chinese aggression

Chinese military power is the new existential military threat to the United States — at least, that’s the view espoused by more than …

What is the responsibility of those still in uniform?

In the summer of 1932, amid the Great Depression, several thousand veterans of World War I gathered in the nation’s capital to express …

IED component data can illuminate networks of bomb-builders

Just as you would not expect a sniper to engage the enemy while blindfolded, we should not expect forces fighting improvised explosive device forces …

TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY for delaying, if not deleting, plans to complete the Bertholf class of national security cutters.

The Coast Guard buys a new class of big ocean-going vessels …