A German military unit that performs many drills involving smacking their rifles against their left chests are experiencing a surprising side effect.

The United States spends more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined (more, in adjusted dollars, than at any time since the Allies were fighting the Axis). How much is too much?

A look inside the "disposition matrix" that determines when -- or if -- the administration will pursue a suspected militant

In what is a somewhat delicious irony, the movie that Republicans once denounced as a possible propaganda move for Obama's re-election is now being assailed by the Senate Intelligence Committee as pro-CIA propaganda. Hosenball has the goods: In...

Navy SEALs are having the best year and a half ever. We've been inundated with tell-all books, documentaries, and big-budget action movies (the upcoming Zero Dark Thirty) about the special-ops frogmen... and then there's that whole...