For eighty years, an American military base was a promise: power that could not be touched. Now the Pentagon is quietly asking how to make its buildings disappear. "Every major military installation i…
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.…
The United States has been winning this war so completely that its own long-range bombers packed up and left the country that was hosting them. "I'm not concerned at all." — Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM …
The White House sold the biggest oil deal in world history. The fine print was drafted so that nobody can undo it but the people who made it. "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!" — President Donal…
The Pentagon knows what the Iran war has cost. It just decided the American people are not allowed to see the whole bill. "Americans deserve to know how much of their money is being burned on Trump's …
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…
For the first time in nearly a century, America is preparing a public execution, and the Pentagon has promised that anyone can watch it happen on their screens. "gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, …
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…
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…
The Pentagon's favorite AI said no to killer robots and mass surveillance, so the secretary of war exiled it from the American defense economy, and a split appeals court just ruled the exile was legal…
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…
The most honest document the Pentagon has produced in months is one it had no intention of making public. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're…
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…