Washington has a spending problem – it keeps spending money on the F-35. A weapon that not only doesn’t work but isn’t needed. In a time of austerity for social programs with President Obama offering cuts to Social Security and Medicare the government continues to shovel money into this black hole of a weapons project. [...]

The Department of Defense recently announced a formal change in policy allowing women to serve in combat positions. The announcement was somewhat symbolic given the changing nature of warfare and the role women already play in current military operations. Women are serving and have been serving in uniform alongside their male counterparts in Afghanistan and [...]

The budget battles in Congress have an interesting, if not wholly unexpected casualty, the Defense Department. Due to budget uncertainty DoD has been forced to slow down its notoriously extravagant contracting process: Speaking to soldiers in Vicenza, Italy, last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta explained the Pentagon’s “burn rate” — the speed at which the [...]