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.…
The Pentagon has a 21,600 pound bomb that cannot destroy the target it was aimed at, and a president who needs the explosion more than the outcome. "The MOAB is a massive information operation type we…
A soldier walked into a police station, confessed to killing an unarmed Afghan man, and asked to be held accountable. The Army obliged, in its way: it closed the case. "I committed a war crime." — A U…
The United States declared this war over in July. In October, its bombers ran home from England, because the military could no longer protect them. "I'm not concerned at all." — Admiral Brad Cooper, C…
Washington is panicking over a machine that might one day wake up and kill everyone, while the one that already almost did is sitting quietly in Pentagon files. "Entirely false." "But it almost starte…
A machine invented a war with China, the American military nearly started it, and the administration's answer was to declare the president himself the only guardrail artificial intelligence needs. "Th…
Six months into a war he said would last "four to five weeks," the man who started it is now describing it as "small potatoes." "I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's …
A year of American missiles into small boats on open water, and the government's own ledger insists not one of the dead was a civilian. "The idea that 227 people are dead and not one of them is a civi…
The U.S. military never targets civilians. It only ever accidentally hits them, at scale, repeatedly, and then investigates the wreckage of its own claims. "What I can say with 100% confidence is that…
America is at war with a country it says it wants a deal with, and on the same Tuesday it refused negotiations, it dropped a bomb on a wedding. "The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the I…
A president who kidnapped a foreign head of state now holds, on paper, a hundred-year claim to a fifth of his victim's oil. He calls it the biggest deal in world history. The gas prices say otherwise.…
The Pentagon's own rules say the military's newspaper cannot be censored. The Pentagon fired three of its journalists anyway. "Thank you Max. I appreciate your response. However, please deliver the no…
A war fought for the Strait of Hormuz is quietly unmaking the military deterrent meant for the Pacific. "We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in …
The soldiers the president sent to his own capital to make it safe are now the ones telling the country they do not want to be there. "I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left…
A man who bailed wounded sailors from a burning warship, who no one had trained to fire the gun he fired anyway, is being erased by the same institution he saved from the sea. "Dorie Miller was the so…
A city was handed to the army to be made safe, and a year later it is marginally less safe, cost millions a day, and lost at least one man who could have lived. "The Pentagon's acknowledgment that the…
A record-breaking war has dragged a record-breaking carrier into a crisis its own leadership insists is not happening. "The way he's treating our service members as he carries out this illegal war is …
A president who is fighting a war in the Persian Gulf just told his most reliable ally in Asia that he is disappointed it said no, and that he would like to charge it less for being disappointed. "I r…
Five thousand sailors are stranded aboard a floating metal prison, some of them trying to jump overboard. The man who sent them there says the war has not gone on long enough. "Have some sympathy, som…
A Christian worship service at the Pentagon ends with the defense secretary asking God to destroy the enemy, and days later the official DoD social media accounts quote scripture. "Let every round fin…
The president flew on an airplane that was officially not his airplane, using a vehicle that normally delivers sandwiches. "I'm number one on their list, before you. But if I go, you go, right? So per…
pentagon, iran war, casualties, hegseth, duckworth The Pentagon quietly changed how it counts the dead, because the truth was getting too heavy to carry. "I don't have the confidence in the Pentagon, …
The Pentagon has sent 5,000 sailors into the most dangerous workplace in the military, then cannot bring itself to tell the truth about what is happening to them. "The morale is not good. Apparently, …
Iran has proven that controlling 21 miles of water is more powerful than an aircraft carrier. "The Strait of Hormuz will not be reopened through military attacks." — Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, former s…
Pentagon, Politics, Pentagon Pete The Pentagon has found a way to make 900 dead and wounded troops disappear into a spreadsheet labeled "Overseas Operations." "This is certainly designed to conceal th…
trump, munitions, iran, military The United States went to war with Iran and ran out of missiles before it ran out of things to hit. "It takes several years to produce a missile. If you put money into…
The Pentagon quietly removed four dead soldiers from the Iran war death toll, then called it a data glitch. "The classification of Iran conflict casualties under Overseas Operations is grounded strict…
The Pentagon is mandating hormone injections for hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the medical evidence against it keeps piling up. "It's about restoring and optimizing your natural capability." …
The Pentagon erased four dead soldiers from its Iran war casualty list in a single night, then blamed it on a website glitch. "The administration seems to have a real hard time being honest about what…
pentagon, iran war, military, trump The official death toll says 19. A government official says the real number of Americans killed or wounded is far higher, and that the discrepancy is by design. "Of…
The Pentagon told families their sons and daughters were fine. The soldiers knew better. "Almost 90 percent of the 400 injured American service members have sustained only minor injuries and have sinc…
trump, israel, military, congress Buried in the annual defense bill is a provision that would give Israel a dedicated Pentagon official with the authority to override US military agencies on weapons d…
While his father controls the Pentagon's spending decisions, Trump's sons have been quietly building a defense tech portfolio worth billions. "Even if not buying drones from China is in the public int…
A man who spent his career telling America to keep its military hand on the trigger collapsed the moment he touched down from Kyiv. "Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I h…
The president of the United States threatens to annihilate a country on social media while diplomats scramble behind the scenes to stop the very war he is hyping. "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded …
The Pentagon is telling Black sailors that a genetic skin condition is an insufficient excuse to keep their job. "We do not have a military of Nordic pagans." — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, addr…
The United States signed a ceasefire with Iran, then bombed Iran. "Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement." — Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 26, 2026 The memorandum of und…
A defense secretary declares flu vaccines "absurd overreaching," then watches his own recruits get knocked down by influenza, then quietly brings the mandate back. "We're seizing this moment to discar…
A foreign monarchy bought the plane, American taxpayers are paying to modify it, and it will end up in a president's personal library. "Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced …
A company that builds spy satellites for the Pentagon quietly accepted millions from investors in Beijing and Moscow, then barred them from its IPO. "At the end we can just send Yalda to talk to big g…
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…
A president turns the White House lawn into a fight club, dresses it in military honors, pays the fighters with his family's crypto, and kicks the press out of the building. "I'm literally flabbergast…
The United States is paying African nations to imprison people it deported who have no connection to those countries, and almost nobody is watching. "What was done to me was pure evil. What I have los…
A Pentagon official admitted in a classified briefing that some of the people the U.S. military killed in its first boat strike may have been victims of human trafficking. "Why would 11 people be on b…
A provision hidden inside this year's defense spending bill would permanently fuse U.S. and Israeli military technology, from artificial intelligence to autonomous weapons systems. "I can't think of a…
The defense secretary who preaches meritocracy just proved that loyalty to a president matters more than qualification in his military. "He went through the list and scrubbed a few names. It was felt …
America's closest ally has been classified as its highest espionage threat. "The aggressiveness of Israeli intelligence collection on top Trump administration officials has been unhinged." — Senior U.…
The Pentagon's new lending office was supposed to strengthen American supply chains. Instead, it became a fast lane for the president's son. "This is our money they're spending. This is corruption we …
A man who broke into the Capitol to stop an election certification now works in a Pentagon office that plans hostage rescue missions. "I am ashamed because I will always be part of this disgrace. Janu…
The Pentagon is running a news website that looks independent but publishes nothing but military talking points, and it is hiding in plain sight. "AI all the way down." Emerson Brooking, Atlantic Coun…