While unfortunate, the loss of an RQ-170 drone over Iran may not be the intelligence disaster some make it out to be.

Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.

The scandal involving remains of American soldiers that were sent to landfills, which James Joyner wrote about last month, looks like it’s even worse on second glance: The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the [...]

The memory of the attack on Pearl Harbor is, inevitably, fading into history.

The costs of keeping the American war machine in Afghanistan rolling are pretty steep: Parachuting a barrel of fuel to a remote Afghan base takes sharp flying skills, steady nerves and flawless timing. It also costs a lot of money—up to $400 a gallon, by military estimates. But the Pentagon is stuck with the expense [...]

As part of the blowback from the accidental deaths of two dozen Pakistani soldiers in a NATO helicopter raid, the U.S. is leaving a base in Pakistan used in drone operations: In another sign of deteriorating relations with Pakistan, the United States is vacating an air base used to launch American drones in response to [...]

The Iranian military claims a U.S. drone was shot-down in western Iran, but all the United States is admitting is that plane is missing: A secret U.S. surveillance drone that went missing last week in western Afghanistan appears to have crashed in Iran, in what may be the first case of such an aircraft ending [...]

Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.

It was just over two months ago that Sgt. Dakota Meyer stood in the East Room of the White House and received the Congressional Medal Of Honor from President Obama for his actions in Afghanistan. Now, he’s at the center of a very interesting legal dispute: Two months ago, Dakota Meyer was awarded the Medal [...]

Jon Huntsman has an editorial at CNN today on the subject of foreign and military policy that’s well worth your attention: America alone cannot police the world. We should increase burden-sharing for the protection of the global commons among countries that share our values and security objectives. Unfortunately, we are not the only democracy stuck [...]

Rick Perry wants a no-fly zone in Syria to prevent ground forces from harming civilians.

No doubt eager to shore up some semblance of foreign policy credibility, Rick Perry sat down with Charles Krauthammer and a few other Fox commentators yesterday and went further than any other Republican candidate when it comes to the uprising in Syria: In an appearance on Fox News Monday evening, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said [...]

Another sign that Newt Gingrich is now a first tier candidate, he’s hiring advisers: Former CIA director R. James Woolsey and Robert McFarlane, national security adviser to President Reagan, have joined Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign as members of his national security advisory team. (…) Other members of Gingrich’s advisory team are: David Wurmser, a senior [...]

With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.

Thomas Ricks posts several recommendations for fixing the Army. Most of them are really, really stupid.

We’re running out of excuses.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the green beret as the official headgear of US Army Special Forces.

Herman Cain is not only proud of his foreign policy ignorance, he thinks it actually would make him a better President: “I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I’d throw that out,” he said, a dig at his critics. He defended his view that presidents and presidential candidates don’t need to [...]

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

Last night, Herman Cain established that he simply isn’t prepared to be Commander in Chief.

The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.

Karim Sadjapour writes about a wargaming scenario he recently participated in with a group of former U.S. officials and experts on Israel and Iran to try to play out how an Israeli strike on Iran might go. Sadjapour was on the Iranian team and, as he relates, it didn’t turn out well for anyone: Iran’s [...]

The Secretary of Defense has some words of warning for those advocating military action against Iran.

The remains of US servicemen killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were thrown out with the trash.

The latest example of Herman Cain’s absolute ignorance when it comes to foreign policy is found in an interview yesterday with ABC News: On foreign policy, asked about Iran having nuclear weapons and how he would respond, Cain says he’d go for … energy independence. But what if it’s your first day in office, asks [...]

Tabitha Hale, who works at Freedomworks and blogs at Red State recounts her encounter with the Transportation Security Administration yesterday: Yesterday, I arrived at the airport to head from Houston, TX (IAH) back to Washington, DC (DCA). I am a frequent flyer – I know how the system works. I took off my boots and [...]

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

On Thursday, Politico published a little-noticed story in which the deputy commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan unloaded on the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai: Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller, deputy commander of the American-led NATO effort to train and equip Afghan security forces, told POLITICO in an interview that top leaders in the Afghan government [...]

DEVELOPING STORY: In a well-marked building in McLean, Virginia, hundreds of CIA analysts are reading newspapers and watching cable news networks for information that might be helpful in assessing terrorist networks. Often, sources tell OTB, this information is pieced together in order to then kill people in faraway countries using drones. Additionally, as a wildly [...]

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

It’s been 100 years since the first use of air power in war: The first instance of airpower was a tactic employed in the Italo-Turkish War, fought between Italy and the Ottoman Empire. In 1911, Italy moved toward its longstanding goal of establishing a colony in North Africa when Germany deployed its Panther gunboat to [...]

Herman Cain’s promise to rely on “experts” should raise eyebrows everywhere.

The U.S. drone war in Yemen has taken out another victim: A wave of CIA drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda figures in Yemen is stoking widespread anger there that U.S. policy is cruel and misguided, prioritizing counterterrorism over a genuine solution to the country’s raging political crisis. Politics has never been a concern to Sam al-Homiganyi [...]

The TSA is deploying VIPR units to weigh stations and bus stations in TN.

SFC Kristoffer Bryan Domeij was killed in action in Afghanistan Saturday, on his fourteenth combat tour.

In her new memoir Condoleeza Rice says that there were significant internal disagreements in the Bush White House over Iraq War policy: Just days after President Obama declared an end to the Iraq war, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is releasing a memoir providing insight into the turmoil over the war within the Bush [...]

President Obama is being attacking from the right for following through on a policy decision made by his Republican predecessor.

As James Joyner noted, earlier today President Obama announced that by the end of December all American troops would be removed from Iraq, with the exception of those Marines necessary to defend the American embassy in Baghdad. The media is characterizing this as the end of the Iraq War but, as Spencer Ackerman notes, that [...]

President Obama is set to announce that all American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

Yesterday before the Republican debate, Herman Cain made a misstep that once again displayed out far out of his depth he is when it comes to foreign policy. It came in an interview with Wolf Blitzer in response to a question about the release of Israeli solider Galid Shalit in a prisoner exchange: BLITZER: Imagine [...]

The Supreme Court will have another interesting First Amendment case on its docket this Term.

Some reports today seem to indicate that the United States is abandoning plans to keep a contingent of military forces in Iraq past the December 31st expiration of the current Status of Forces Agreement: BAGHDAD—The Obama administration is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline. A senior administration official [...]

The Air Force has released some details about the virus that has infected the country’s drone fleet: The Air Force did provide a few details about the malware. They said it was first noticed on “a stand-alone mission support network using a Windows-based operating system.” And they called it “a credential stealer,” transmitted by portable [...]

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

The Justice Department claims to have disrupted a major Iranian-backed terrorist attack in the United States.

A computer virus has infected America’s fleet of Predator and Reaper drones.

Mike Flynn, the 2-star who blasted military intelligence, is now the 3-star charged with fixing military intelligence.