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Meet the Guy Who Could Soon Be Running America's Wars
Ashton Carter, a theoretical physicist and former No. 2 at the Pentagon, is expected to be tapped as Obama's next Defense Secretary.
Is the Blackwater Verdict the Beginning of the End for Private Military Contractors?
Mercenaries are finally paying a price for killing innocent Iraqi civilians.
There’s No Such Thing as a 'Non-Lethal' Weapon
Tasers, pepper spray, and other "non-lethal" or "less lethal" devices still have the potential to cripple or kill, and we need to recognize that.
The Pentagon Is Giving Grenade Launchers to Campus Police
With help from the Pentagon, colleges across the United States are buying military-grade weapons, and putting campuses into perpetual lockdown.
Giving Chelsea Manning Hormone Therapy Doesn't Undo Her Persecution
The Pentagon is weighing up moving whistleblower Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison. But transphobia and persecution still reign.
DARPA's New Biotech Unit Will Try to Create New Life Forms
Also: disease detectors and brain-controlled drones.
A Cyber 'Pearl Harbor' Is Coming, Says Leon Panetta
If you didn't already know it, the United States is in terrible trouble of being hit by a horrible, crippling cyberattack. _The New York Times_ calls it a "dire threat." Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls it the impending "cyber Pearl Harbor." We don...
Want to Buy the Navy's Most Secret Stealth Ship? It's Up for Auction
With all of the press coverage afforded to struggles to uncover our government's secrets -- like high-profile Freedom of Information Act requests for torture docs -- t's sometimes easy to forget that, occasionally, top secret stuff gets released...
The Defense Department Wants to Take Back the Internet
When the US Department of Defense created the infant network in the late 1950's that that would later become the mega web of cyberspace that we inhabit today, they envisioned it as a useful tool for the government to share information across small...