Daily Pentagon Jackpot: Virtual MRAP Edition
The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle. Its signature V-shaped hull and durable underbelly raised the bar for protection against roadside bombs in ground-force transportation — to say nothing of...
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Missile Fights! Shipyard Showdown! The Danger Room Guide to The Next Congress...
Feel that in the air? It’s the anxiety of congressional Democrats. The political forecasters expect them to lose control of the House of Representatives in next month’s midterm elections. Maybe even...
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Stealth Jet Faceoff! Wars Over War! The Danger Room Guide to The Next...
In just a few months, the Obama Pentagon is going to shed nearly all of its top leaders, up to and including Defense Secretary Robert Gates. And before the new team gets put in place, it’s got to go...
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Race China to the Moon, Stop ’1,000 Pearl Harbors,’ Says Controversial Candidate
Congressional candidate and former Marine Ilario Pantano first became famous — and notorious – after he killed two unarmed men in Iraq. (The Marine Corps accused him of murder, and later dropped the...
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Move Elite Troops Into Pakistan: Ex-Green Beret Politico
End the conventional war in Afghanistan. Free up Special Forces to hunt terrorists in Pakistan — and maybe in Yemen and Somalia, too. Get Iraq to pay for its own defense. Rein in the President’s broad...
View ArticleSo Much for Spy Oversight: The Danger Room Guide to The Next Congress (Part...
It can be easy to forget that “oversight” has two meanings. But longtime spy-watchers never do. “It could mean ‘oversee,’” reminds John Pike, the intel-and-military analyst who runs GlobalSecurity.org,...
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Gates’ Plan for Post-Gadhafi Libya: Don’t Get Involved
According to a very tired-looking Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the “political objective” of the U.S. for Libya remains the end of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. But Gates took extra special effort at a...
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Stealth Fighter’s Oxygen Woes Still a Mystery, Air Force Admits
Mitt Romney says he wants to re-open production of America's topline stealth fighter program. One problem: the Air Force still isn't sure why the planes were intermittently choking their pilots for...
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