Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Tag: Pentagon

Making sense of a viral military

A military spouse’s perspective on the Pentagon’s flawed response to the pandemic.

Back to the future at the Pentagon

Why 2021 looks so much like 1981 — and why that should scare us...

Rewarding failure

Why Pentagon weapons programs rarely get canceled despite major problems...

The Pentagon, first, last, and always

Focusing on the wrong threats, including a New Cold War with China, is the last thing we can afford now.

Has Trump already been removed as commander in chief?

I Pence calling the shots when it comes to the Pentagon?

Shrinking the Pentagon

Will the Biden administration dare cut military spending?

Hey Joe, where you going with that Pentagon in your hands?

If past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, there are ample reasons for apprehension about the top of the military and foreign-policy team that Biden has begun to install for his presidency.

National (in)security and the Pentagon budget

A post-coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the Pentagon first.

‘F-35s don’t help families pay their bills’: GOP under fire for...

"And this is the time to jam some military procurement into this year that you didn't get last year?"

The Pentagon confronts the pandemic

One thing is inescapable: as the disaster aboard the Theodore Roosevelt indicates, the U.S. military must reconsider how it arms and structures its forces and give serious thought to alternative models of organization.

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What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...

Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.

Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...

As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage

More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.

Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm as EPA resists...

New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.