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U.N. Drone Investigator: If Facts Lead to U.S. War Crimes, So Be It
The U.N.'s new drone inquisitor isn't out to take away lethal robots from the U.S. military or CIA. But he also doesn't intend to shy away from uncovering their mistakes -- and abuses.
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Spec Ops Chief Says Elite Troops Will ‘Probably Not’ Skip a Generation of Tech
Tight budgets mean elite U.S. commandos will "probably not" make massive technological strides in the coming years, according to their commander. But that doesn't mean they won't innovate in other ways.
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Next Up for SEALs: Upgraded Batman-Style Grappling Hook Gun
The next tool SEALs might use to scale walls or board ships? An upgraded, foldable grappling hook fired by compressed air.
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Here Are the Patterns the Feds Found for U.S. Mass Killings
Mass killers are likely to prefer handguns; overwhelmingly likely to be male; and unlikely to have served in the military, according to a November study by a Department of Homeland Security fusion center.
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Next Pentagon Chief Doesn’t Want to Get Sucked Into France’s Mali War
Something the next Pentagon chief really, really doesn't want to do: deepen the U.S. involvement in France's war in Mali.
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Air Force Wants You to Design Its Next-Gen Sensors (For Cheap)
Want to design the next generation of Air Force sensors and imaging tools? Yeah, they're not going to pay you much.
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Chuck Hagel Says He’s Just Like Obama’s Previous Pentagon Chiefs
Want to know how Chuck Hagel will run the Pentagon? If you listen to his remarks to the Senate for his confirmation hearing, he'll be a lot like Obama's previous defense secretaries.
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Senators Rough Up Obama’s Nominee to Run The Pentagon
If Chuck Hagel wins approval in the Senate to run the Pentagon, as President Obama desires, it’ll be despite his performance in his confirmation hearing on Thursday, not because of it. The former...
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Suicide Bomber Strikes U.S. Embassy in Turkey
A suicide bomber attacked the U.S. embassy in Ankara, the capitol of Turkey, killing at least two in the first major attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility since the assault on the U.S. consulate in...
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Report: U.S. Muslim Terrorism Was Practically Nil in 2012
There were only 9 incidents of terrorism in the U.S. by American Muslims in 2012, involving 14 people, down for the third straight year, according to new research.
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Palm-Sized Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War’s Latest Spy Drone
British troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that's shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.
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More Than 50 Countries Helped the CIA Outsource Torture
According to a new study, 54 countries helped the CIA outsource torture -- whether by providing foreign prisons for torturing detainees, prisoner transfers or logistics aid.
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How Obama Transformed an Old Military Concept So He Can Drone Americans
Once, a nation could only attack another if it had evidence an enemy was readying an "imminent" attack. To justify drone strikes on American citizens, President Obama redefined imminence out of existence.
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest U.S. Robot Market
The drone industry's major professional association, AUVSI, is thinking hard about what a non-military U.S. market for drones looks like. Its theory: farms will buy more robots than cops will.
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Navy’s First 4G Network Will Head Out to Sea in March
The Navy's first-ever WWAN 4G LTE network is about to head out to sea, aboard the USS Kearsarge and USS San Antonio.
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Budget Woes Mean Only One U.S. Aircraft Carrier Will Watch Iran
The U.S. has eleven aircraft carriers, the ultimate symbol of American military reach, and for the past three years, it’s kept two of them near Iran’s shores to deter it from doing something rash like...
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Exclusive: U.N.’s Drone Investigator Backs Brennan for Top CIA Job
The head of the United Nations inquiry into drone strikes and targeted killings believes the chief architect of those efforts, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, will rein them in at...
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Brennan: Government Goes Through ‘Agony’ Before Launching Drone Strikes
During a contentious and at times raucous Senate hearing, John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to run the CIA, said the government agonizes over authorizing lethal drone strikes.
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Senator Warns CIA Against Lying About Civilians Killed in Drone Strikes
The CIA's top ally in the Senate thinks the agency is truthful about killing few civilians with drones. But she says "it's a whole new situation" if the CIA is lying.
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The Cost of War Includes at Least 253,330 Brain Injuries and 1,700 Amputations
Nearly 130,000 U.S. troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and vastly more have experienced brain injuries. That's according to new congressional data hinting at the cost of...
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