The defense secretary wanted a piece of history in his office, and his staff delivered it in pieces. "Hegseth is no Ike. The globe won't give him Ike's attributes of humility, intellect, and judgment.…
A tribute to the armed forces, interrupted: four airmen rappelled into a college stadium to entertain a crowd, and one of them never reached the ground. "slid down the rope in an uncontrolled manner" …
For a week, the United States was one social media post away from broadcasting the first publicly televised state execution in modern history. The feed went dark on Thursday. The firing squad did not.…
For the first time since 1936, the American state is asking its citizens to watch a man die on camera, and the soldiers holding the guns are looking for an exit. "We'll make sure people are able to wa…
The Pentagon declared the Iran war over in June, then spent four more months refusing to count the men and women it kept losing. "We have nothing to provide beyond the Defense Casualty Analysis System…
The Pentagon's answer to the future of war is a 120-day study by three men who have never held a rifle, announced the same day the department cut a fifth of its generals. "Project Meridian will ruthle…
The War Department added a body to its own ledger, told almost no one, and is now showing the one number that makes the war look the least bad. "They want to tell you that the war is going fine, and t…
A defeated congressman had one trick left in his sleeve, and it forced his own party to go on the record about a war that killed 168 schoolgirls. "All I know, all I can say, is that we're investigatin…
A Pentagon that cannot confirm its own stockpiles has started running lie detectors on its own officers to find out who told the truth. "The 'leakers' of these treasonous statements are being hunted d…
The Secretary of Defense promoted a Marine colonel whose brother's podcast co-host said Hegseth deserved to be shot, then told reporters anyone questioning it was smearing the officer. "Six bullets. I…